Sunday Submissions: ArabPop ‘Celebration’ Issue
The Italian magazine ArabPop has opened calls for its fifth issue – the theme is ‘Celebration’.
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ArabLit & Komet Kashakeel Open Submissions for 2024 Arabic Flash Fiction Prize
Submissions for the 2023 ArabLit Story Prize are open today.
Sunday Submissions: Stephen Spender Prize 2023
Submissions for 2023’s edition of the Stephen Spender Prize for for poetry in translation are now open. The Stephen Spender Trust writes: Translate ANY poem from ANY language into English, […]
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.
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).
On the Seizure of Kamel Riahi’s ‘The Tunisian Frankenstein’
PEN America today released a statement condemning Tunisian President Kais Saied, who, they write, “gave a speech about freedom of thought to open the country’s national book fair, only to then have security agents of the state order the confiscation of a book, The Tunisian Frankenstein by author Kamel Riahi.” .
Najwa Barakat’s ‘Mr. N’ a Finalist for 2023 EBRD Literature Prize
Whittling our shortlist down was tough, as it always is, but these are three truly outstanding novels, with overlapping themes – devotion and rebellion, timelessness and historical contingency, free will and political power – and utterly distinct identities. Each would be a worthy winner in its own right.
Palestinian Poet, Translator, and Anthologist Salma Khadra Jayyusi Dies at 95
The pioneering translator, scholar, literary historian, and poet Salma Khadra Jayyusi — the most prominent anthologist of Arabic literature in English translation and founder of PROTA, the Project for the Translation of Arabic– died yesterday in Amman, Jordan. She was 95.
Ibrahim Fawzy Makes ‘PEN Presents’ Shortlist for Translation of Khaled Nasrallah’s ‘The White Line of Night’
Thirteen titles representing works from ten languages have been shortlisted for the second round of PEN Presents, English PEN’s award for sample translations.Among the awardees is Ibrahim Fawzy, for a translation of Khaled Nasrallah’s ‘The White Line of Night.’