The 2013 Hugo Awards are set to be announced on September 1 at San Antonio’s “LoneStarCon.” Among the five shortlisted for the “Best Novel” award is debut author Saladin Ahmed, the first Arab-American and first Muslim shortlisted for the prize.
Over at the Arabist, Ursula Lindsey raises questions, in Et Tu Sonallah?, about the towering Egyptian novelist’s current and past political positions and how they reflect on his role as a sometimes-“oracular novelist,” as he was recently called by Robyn Creswell.
Sarah Irving continues her coverage of the Edinburgh International Book Festival; on Monday, she attended a talk by Rawi Hage and Tash Aw, called “The World in Grotesque Technicolor.”
Los Angeles, USA can look forward to several forthcoming Arab and Arabic literature events, thank to the recently expanded Levantine Cultural Center.
The Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) board staged a panel in May 2013. For those who couldn’t make it, the video is now available in three parts on the LAL site.
Asymptote journal has put out its final recruitment call for 2013, with an application deadline of August 26.
What is “World Literature” when it’s not just a euphemism for “contemporary Western lit”?
Two novels, a book of poetry,one memoir, and a photography book — all of which have Toronto as a focus — have made it to the 2013 Toronto Book Awards shortlist. One of them is Aden-born Kamal al-Solaylee’s “Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes.”
Includes work by Murtadha Gzar, Ibrahim Aslan, Hamdy al-Gazzar, Mahmoud Darwish, and Iman Mersal.
