Author J.C. Michaels recently visited Cairo to talk with audiences about the Arabic translation of his YA novel Firebelly: By Yasmine Motawy J. C. Michaels, the author of the award-winning and […]
Today, the book at the center of the case officially appears in Ben Koerber’s translation, published by University of Texas Press.
There will be one main prize, of $20,000 US, and three prizes of $1,000 each for the best stories in each of the remaining three languages.
“Unlike much older translations of this work,” the award citation says, “this new translation will be more poetic and accessible. Each poem will be contextualized with a brief introduction.”
In this hardboiled half-hour show, Guyer focuses on the role of the noir novel in Cairo, taking us from “The Three Apples” of The Thousand and One Nights to what Guyer calls the “neo noir” film The Nile Hilton Incident, the screening of which was recently prevented in Egypt.
A Blade of Grass — a bilingual anthology that brings together new work by poets from “the Palestinian territories, from the diaspora, and from within the disputed borders of Israel” — was partially funded by a research grant from the University of Chichester and partially by a successful crowdfunding campaign. Together, they enabled two donations of £240 to be made to the legal campaigns of Palestinian poets Ashraf Fayadh (jailed in Saudi Arabia) and Dareen Tatour (jailed in Israel).
“Massacre is a dead metaphor that is eating my friends, eating them without salt.”
The third, he said, is a little more complex, “yet easy to detect; I also disqualified the translations that ‘Orientalize’ the poem.”
“One longlisted work, Dunya Mikhail’s Fi Souq al-Sabaya, is already set to appear in English translation in March 2018 from New Directions, as The Beekeeper.”
