Hisham Matar’s ‘The Return’ Makes Costa Book Awards Shortlist
“This year’s winners will be announced on January 3, 2017.”
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On the Perpetually Strange 147-strong IMPAC Longlist, Only Arabic Novel is al-Aswany’s ‘Automobile Club’
“Arabic literature aside, it’s a serious disappointment not to find serious Bangla, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, and Russian novels here, as well as novels from sub-Saharan Africa. “
‘I Remember My Name’ Wins at Palestine Book Awards
The winner, announced Friday in London, was the poetry collection I Remember My Name, which includes the work of poets Jehan Bseiso, Samah Sabawi, and Ramzy Baroud.
Friday Finds: Translation of Climate-change Comic ‘8 Minutes’
“You need to check out the photos for yourself; in a few years ‘8 Minutes’ won’t seem that fictional.”
‘Limbo Beirut’: A Don’t-miss Illustrated Novel of Contemporary Limbos, Beiruts
“Limbo Beirut″ is a demand that the reader ″balance in the uneasy space between being a voyeur and a participant, gratifying our desire to get inside the head of that stranger we meet on the street…but on the other hand surprising us with the fact that you can never just be a witness, that you′re always going to somehow become involved in the other′s life, whether you mean to or not.″
‘Al-Mutanabbi Street’ 2017: As Long As We Need To Remember
Next March marks the tenth anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad’s Al-Mutanabbi Street, the city’s historic bookselling corridor. Many continue to remember.
Coming Nov. 26: Defense Motion for a Stay of 2-Year Sentence Against Novelist Ahmed Naji
“The motion is set to be heard at Bulaq Abu Al-Aila Misdemeanour court.”
6 Arab-German Authors from a Growing Scene
“There was Emily Ruete (Sayyida Salme)’s Memoiren einer arabischen Prinzessin, published in 1886. But for the most part, according to Iman O. Khalil and Jeannette Iocca, Arab-German literature has its roots in the 1970s and 1980s.”
Sinan Antoon in Stockholm: Translation and Literature of/on Iraq
“What then could come out of bringing these different Iraqi and American experiences of the war, these different time-frames, into dialogue? And what would be lost?”