Al-Madhoun’s IPAF-winning ‘Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba’ to Hoopoe, Expected 2018
Ahmed Saadawi’s 2015-prize-winning ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ is also forthcoming early next year, translated by Jonathan Wright.
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2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist Showcases Region’s ‘Struggles and Defeats,’ ‘Hopes and Dreams’
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction announced its 2017 longlist this morning. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that women make up a majority of the judging panel, which is chaired by internationally acclaimed novelist Sahar Khalifeh.
20 Books You Might See on 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist, To Be Announced Today
According to organizers, we can look for the sixteen-book longlist and names of the five judges around 9 a.m. GMT. Meanwhile, ArabLit throws out twenty guesses.
Sunday Submissions: Last Call for Asymptote’s ‘Close Approximations’ Contest
“The winner and two runners-up of each category will win $1,000 USD and $250 USD respectively.”
Mazen Kerbaj To Serialize New Graphic Novel in a Lebanese Newspaper
“The subject? Beirut, Antoine Kerbage, Mohammad el Maghout, theatre, the 70’s, an unpublished manuscript, the arabs, the golden age of Lebanese artistic scene, all mixed with some autobiography (because otherwise it wont be fun).”
Friday Finds from Sawiris Winner Mohamed Rabie: ‘Naguib Mahfouz, The Man We All Wronged’
“As usual I sat at the front, close to the blackboard because I’m short-sighted, and to the left, so the teacher’s body wouldn’t hide what he wrote.”
Nouri al-Jarrah, Rosa Yassin Hassan and ‘Syria in the Heart’
“I saw lightning in the east
in a wink
then west
I saw the sun dripping
in its blood
and the sea agitated
and the past robbed of its books”
2016 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation to Jonathan Wright for ‘The Bamboo Stalk’
“Jonathan Wright’s seamless English rendering does full justice to the original, exhibiting a sureness of touch that fully captures the spirit of the Arabic version.”
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid as Literary Bard and Dostoevsky’s Great Grand-nephew
“The Arabic novel, and Arabic poetry, are no less than any literary production anywhere in the world.”