Two Poetry Collections from Arabic Make Inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize Shortlist
The winning book will be announced on Thursday, March 25, 2021; the winning poet and translator will share a £3,000 prize.
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Upcoming Events: A ‘History of the Arabic Book’ Translating Octavia Butler, More
Events coming up in the next week include a talk about translating Octavia Butler’s Kindred, “The History of the Arabic Book: A New Chapter;” “Hazine: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond;” and “Stories We Continue to Tell: The Many Returns of the Thousand and One Nights.”
Mourning Sudanese Author Ibrahim Ishaq
Last Saturday, the Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information announced that prominent novelist Ibrahim Ishaq had died in the United States. He was 75.
Saturday Events: ‘A Poem in Arabic, Not an Arabic Poem’
Dartmouth College’s open Middle Eastern literature lecture series starts on Wednesday, January 27, with a talk by Princeton’s Lara Harb.
Saturday Events: Emily Drumsta on ‘Revolt Against the Sun’
The Brown University event is set for 12 – 1 p.m. EST on February 3, 2021. You can register to attend the webinar or follow on YouTube.
Friday Finds: Excerpt from Rula Jurdi’s ‘Camera Obscura’
Near the end of the excerpt, as Nour falls asleep, she thinks about how her own father “in a matter of days, transformed into an entirely different person.”
Abdullah al-Sakhi on Writing His Multigenerational Iraqi Trilogy
“In this first week, we focus on work by novelist Abdullah al-Sakhi, who was born in 1951, left Iraq in 1979, and published his first novel looking at Iraq’s internal migrants, Behind the Dam, in 2008.”
Banipal to Launch Arabic Edition in March 2021
“With works translated into Arabic from many other languages as well as those written in Arabic it will be an exciting international literary adventure that will complement the original Banipal Magazine of Arab Literature in English translation, and its sister publication, Banipal revista de literatura árabe moderna, in Spanish translation.”
Kay Heikkinen Wins 2020 Banipal Prize for Translation of Huzama Habayeb’s ‘Velvet’
Organizers announced today that 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation will go to Kay Heikkinen, for her translation of Huzama Habayeb’s Velvet.