NOVEMBER 3, 2023 — Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival yesterday announced the winner of the third annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry: Mosab […]
NOVEMBER 1, 2023 — The Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature today announced the prize’s 2023 winners in five categories. The 2023 winner in the poetry category is “غناء الماء” (Singing […]
Sundress Publications has announced that — in an effort to support and uplift Palestinian voices — they have opened two new opportunities for writers around the world of Palestinian descent. […]
NOVEMBER 4, 2023 — Last week, the Denver Quarterly announced their annual prizes, and this year’s Cole Swenson Prize for Translation went to Fatima J. Alharthi for her translation of Najwa Binshatwan’s “Hussein […]
OCTOBER 30, 2023 — We are pleased to announce the three short fictions that this year’s judges have selected for the shortlist of the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize. All three […]
On October 5 of this year, Ghayath Almadhoun says, Haus für Poesie Berlin organizers sent him an email. In it, they told the Palestinian-Syrian poet that they were pleased that several […]
In the wake of the unspecified “postponement” of the Litprom award ceremony for the German translation of Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, and the cancellation of Shibli’s event at the Frankfurt Book […]
Lebanese novelist and short-story writer Layla Baalbaki (1934-2023), whose debut novel and only short-story collection vaulted her into the company of the best Arab writers of the twentieth century, died […]
Poet and novelist Heba Abu Nada, author of the novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead (2017), died under bombardment in Khan Yunis on Friday, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture announced. […]
