“This was a man who wanted to write a book, and he wanted to write it the way he wanted to write it. He may have had all sorts of unconscious models in his mind, but this was an enterprise that was not trammeled by what it should be and what it should be called.”
New calls and contests for translated literature, literary events, and short-short stories (in Arabic).
Yesterday, the French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation announced the finalists for the 28th Annual Translation Prize of “best translations in fiction and nonfiction from French to English.”
Souad Massi’s new album “El Mutakallimun,” loosely translated as “The Masters of the Word,” reinterprets ten classic Arabic texts.
If you’re in London, or can get there, synchronize your calendar with these events.
“I lost inspiration for three years, only to recover it in my small frigid box — cell 5, ward 23.”
Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi, renowned Egyptian poet, has died at 77.
“…it’s a fast-paced, novella-length work, reminiscent of Muriel Spark’s ‘Driver’s Seat’, both for its black humor and for the way its characters slide precipitously into danger.”
“This is why I believe that the kind of perfect bilingualism we imagine, where two languages co-exist, side by side in the same self, in a kind of fluid, working harmony is always really just a utopian dream.”
