The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has announced their 2023 shortlist, which includes two books translated from Arabic: the powerful work of literary reportage What Have You Left Behind, by Bushra […]
NOVEMBER 6, 2023 — Sudanese sound poet and human-rights lawyer Kamal Elgizouli, whose work “pops and bristles with his iconic and vibrant marriage of pictorial and auditory,” died in the early […]
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 […]
