Lit Lists (Page 10)

This is where you’ll find 1-10 (and an explanation of this project), and here’s 11-20 and 21-30. Please do help me out with errors and omissions. 31 Najran Under Zero, by the Palestinian Yaha Yakhlaf. I could not find Najran Taht al-Sifr in English (see above for my horrible, literalContinue Reading

This is where you’ll find 1-10 (and an explanation of this project), and here’s 11-20. Please continue to help me out with errors and omissions. 21 The Epidemic, by Syrian author Hani al-Raheb,  was excerpted in Banipal 9, translated by Bassam K Frangieh. I can find none of al-Rehab’s fictionContinue Reading

You can find 1-10 here. 11. The Animists, by Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni, translated by Elliot Colla. Available June 2012. I had thought The Animists was supposed to be out this year, but when I looked to make sure, the IPM/AUC website had been modified: It’s now set to rollContinue Reading

Mansour El Souwaim was born in south Darfur in 1970, and thus must be one of the elders of the Beirut39 (39 “up and coming” Arabic authors under 40). El Souwaim has published two novels (the second of which won the Tayeb Salih Award for Creative Writing) and a collectionContinue Reading