Sunday Submissions: UK Digital Collaboration Fund
Eligible partner countries include Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.
News
‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’ Makes Longlist for 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has announced the 16 titles longlisted for their fourth annual award. One title translated from the Arabic made the list: Rania Mamoun’s Thirteen Months of Sunrise, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.
R. B. Smith, Mai Lootah Win AATA Translation Awards
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic Translation has announced the two winners of their 2020 translation award.
32 Books Selected for Inaugural ‘Arab Voices’ Launched at Frankfurt
The Arab Voices project was (virtually) launched last week at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with a video presentation by project head Sherif Bakr and jury members Abier Megahed and R. Neil Hewison.
Hay Festival ‘Will Not Return to Abu Dhabi’ While Minister Accused of Sexual Assault ‘Remains in Position’
Hay Festival, which ran the first-ever Hay Festival Abu Dhabi this year, has stated that the literary festival will not return to Abu Dhabi while the minister accused of assault […]
Winner of 2020 ArabLit Story Prize: ‘Tunnels’
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize are Hadiya Hussein and Shakir Mustafa for “Tunnels”: This year’s judges decided, after deliberation focused on translational […]
Sonallah Ibrahim’s ‘Provocative Masterpiece’ Warda Coming June 2021
“Oman, which is not often in the media spotlight, appears to the reader of Warda not only as a country with a rich tradition and heritage, but also the scene of a violent power struggle between its different political factions.”
Interlink Signs English Rights for Novels by Asma Al Atawna, Hammour Ziadeh
There were also two agreements to publish in English: for Asma al-Atawna’s debut coming-of-age novel, “Missing Picture,” and Hammour Ziada’s “Drowning.”
Sunday Submissions: Culture Resource Opens to Literature, Other Arts for 2021 Production Awards
Applications are now open for the Culture Resource’s 2021 Production Awards program. Elegible artists must be from Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq or Yemen: