Syrian Writer Haidar Haidar Dies at 87: ‘The Man of the Banquet and the Leopard is Gone’
Social media was flooded with tributes to Syrian writer Haidar Haidar, who died May 5 at the age of 87.
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Lit & Found: Inaam Kachachi on ‘The Night Baghdad Fell’
” I am not even sure that for my generation the hope of a homecoming is still realistically there. However, a novelist cannot be constrained to the limitations of reality; a novelist has to have a hole in the wall to see the light of the day; a novelist needs to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel somehow, because this is the way for the novelist to keep on writing their narratives.”
New: A Monthly Newsletter for Publishing Professionals about Arabic Literature & Translation
Now we want to distill and share what we’ve learned — on a monthly basis — for publishing professionals. This will primarily be for publishers who are interested in works translated from Arabic, but also into Arabic.
Publication Day for ‘Shalash the Iraqi’
It’s publication day for Shalash the Iraqi’s series of posts — essays, short stories, satiric monologues, magical-realist sketches — translated to English by Luke Leafgren nearly twenty years after their first appearance online.
A Talk with Shalash, the Explosively Popular Iraqi Satirist
“After only a few days—let’s say less than the first week after the appearance of Shalash—he became a phenomenon that occupied public opinion. It was a terrible thing for me, to be influential in a way that I did not expect, and that I could not even imagine, in the sense that readers turned Shalash into their conscience and their exclusive voice.”
‘The Privatization of Da’bul’s Oil’: An Excerpt from ‘Shalash the Iraqi’
“Umm Da’bul was a bit taken aback when she discovered one day that her youngest, a child of ten, was peeing oil.”
Sheikh Zayed Book Awards to Iraqi Poet Ali Jaafar Alallaq, Algerian Novelist Said Khatibi, Others
Iraqi author Ali Jaafar Alallaq has won the 2023 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, in the Literature category, for his 2022 memoir “إلى أين أيتها القصيدة؟ سيرة ذاتية” (Whereto, O Poem? An Autobiography).
‘Ode to a Burning Homeland’: Two Poems for Sudan
Our beloved homeland is burning!
New Releases for May 2023: Satire, Poetry, and a Classic Book on Monasteries
As always, if you know of books we’ve missed, please let us know at info@arablit.org.