‘Palestine Book Awards’ Announces 2020 Shortlist
The winners are set to be announced in November.
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‘Fee for a Feline’
“I see people / getting beautiful / day after day / but just not you.
Like a kitten / you only mean anything / when you’re young /you know that’s true.”
Bulaq Episode 50: ‘Tazmamart’
In this episode of Bulaq, the fifty-first, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey talk about Morocco’s most infamous secret prison.
Arabic Translation Challenge: ‘You’ve Aged Like a Cat!’
“I saw everyone getting lovelier, day by day, / and you, becoming less so! / Like a cat that fetches a high price in its youth, / and which, when it ages, goes for cheap.”
Sunday Submissions: Speculative Fiction in Translation
“We value expanding our perceptions, whether through reading narratives or poems from under-represented groups, or through you sharing insight. We are open to unusual yet readable styles, inventive structures and narratives, and works that address political issues in complex and nuanced ways, resisting oversimplification.”
‘No Way But The Way’
“It’s heart-warming to see Sargon’s voice transmogrify in so many ways and across four languages.”
Netflix and the Screen Adaptation of ‘Abu Omar al-Masri’
The screen adaptation of Ezzedine Choukri Fishere’s Abu Omar al-Masri — translated to English by Jonathan Wright and retitled as The Egyptian Assassin — is now available on Netflix.
Stella Gaitano’s ‘Eddo’s Souls,’ ‘Book of Ramallah’ Win PEN Translates Awards
For the first time, one of the “PEN Translates” awards will go to a South Sudanese novel.
Youssouf Amine Elalamy Wins 2020 Prix Orange du Livre
The prize went to Moroccan writer Youssouf Amine Elalamy for his novel C’est beau, la guerre: