Sunday Submissions: 2017 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
“The Fund seeks to encourage translators to undertake projects they might not otherwise have had the means to attempt.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
‘Manifesto for Translation’ Signed by Adonis, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Sonallah Ibrahim, Others
We want this “Manifesto for translation” to be a call for active mobilization in favour of a concrete policy supporting translation and cultural works in the Mediterranean.
Arab Authors on Brexit
“One more massive lurch toward the dark.”
Friday Films: ‘The Mountain,’ Based on a Novel by Fathi Ghanem
The film was released in 1965, directed by Khalil Shawki and starring Samira Ahmed.
Ashraf Fayadh Poem Read Before UN Human Rights Council
“We have of course, raised Fayadh’s case with this Council before, as we have been raising, like many, the cases of Raif Badawi, Waleed Abulkhair, Ali al-Nimr and others.”
For World Refugee Week: 4 Poems
Being a refugee means standing at the end of the queue
to get a fraction of a country.
‘Here’s to Blowing Savior Literature off the Shelves’
“Barakat was on the 2015 shortlist for the Man Booker International, and yet this novel has no contract for an English translation.”
‘Refugee Tales’: ‘People Who Work With Language Can Contribute To That Change’
“Crucially, then, the discourse itself, which is to say the language, has to be addressed and altered. People who work with language can contribute to that change.”
Sunday Submissions: Call for National Translation Awards Expert Readers in Poetry and Prose
Anyone interested should email by June 24 if interested.