Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry Open Now: Translations Welcome
A $5,000 Pan-African poetry prize is now open for submissions.
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‘Could You Please Look Into the Camera?’ Arrives in the US
The work, by rising Syrian playwright Mohammed Al Attar, will run through May 31 at Theatrelab.
Majority of 2016 Neustadt Finalists Are Women; Ghassan Zaqtan Makes List a Second Year
Seven of the nine finalists for the 2016 Neustadt Prize are women — the highest percentage yet for the forty-five-year-old prize.
UPDATE: 4 Big International-lit Award Announcements Today: BTBA, IFFP, PEN/Heim, and Neustadt
Four major Anglophone international-literature prizes announce winners or finalists today: the Best Translated Book Award (BTBA, 2:30 p.m. EST), the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP), the PEN/Heim translation grants, and the Neustadt (7:30 p.m MST).
‘When It Comes To Issues of…Censorship, the Answer is Still Tunisia!’
A three-day conference on “Theatre and Censorship” — organized by Egypt’s National Centre of Theatre, Music and Popular Arts — wraps up today.
You’re Not Consuming More Arabic Literature, Just ‘More of Mahfouz’?
“In turn, more Egyptian writers began to mimic Mahfouz’s style, and the market for Egyptian literature in Western countries became saturated with these imitations.”
Book Giveaway: ‘The Bamboo Stalk,’ by Saud Alsanousi
The IPAF-winning book, which was launched in London at the end of April, is set to come out in the US in September.
PalFest Begins, Filmmaker Sara Ishaq Denied Entry
“I attempted to return on Wednesday to attend the Palestine Literature Festival where I was due to speak and present my film.”
Two Open Windows: Why This Is the Day to Read ‘African Titanics’
“What I should tell you is this: Read ‘African Titanics’ tomorrow, read it yesterday, but don’t read it today.”