New Lit Prize for Debut Novelists
A year after Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa’s untimely death at the age of 59 — on September 30, 2023 — a group of his friends announced the launch of a […]
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National Book Award Finalists Include Fady Joudah, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Two Translations from Arabic
OCTOBER 1, 2024 — This year’s list of finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards saw works by Arab authors in four of the five categories: Libyan-British author Hisham Matar’s […]
Sudanese Poet Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim Dies at 85
By Lemya Shammat SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 — Mohammed El-Makki Ibrahim (1939-2024), a celebrated poet and cultural icon of Sudan, died today in Cairo. He was 85. Born in El-Obied, North […]
Karima Ahdad, Nasser Rabah, & Azza Abulanwar Win 2024 Arabic Flash Fiction Prizes
ArabLit and Komet Kashakeel announce the winners of the inaugural Arabic Flash Fiction Prize. كريمة أحداد وناصر رباح وعزة أبو الأنوار يفوزون بجوائز القصص الومضية العربية لعام 2024 SEPTEMBER 15, […]
6 Poems to Celebrate Batool Abu Akleen, MPT’s 2024 Poet in Residence
This week, award-winning Gaza-based Palestinian poet and artist Batool Abu Akleen was named the 2024 Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) poet-in-residence. MPT editor Ed Cottrell explained that the residencies “are […]
3 of 10 from Arabic on Longlist for National Book Award for Translated Literature
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 — Three of the works longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature are literary works translated from Arabic. This year’s 10-book longlist was announced today. […]
Translated Work By Iman Mersal, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Make ALTA Longlists
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 — A work translated from Arabic made both of the twelve-book longlists announced today by the American Literary Translators Association for the 2024 National Translation Awards: in […]
Naguib Mahfouz Medal Shortlist Celebrates Six Novels
AUGUST 30, 2024 — The American University in Cairo Press today announced the shortlist for the 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, eighteen years after the Nobel laureate’s passing. This […]
Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning Novelist Somaya Ramadan Dies, 73
AUGUST 20, 2024 — Somaya Ramadan — a prominent literary critic, award-winning author, and translator of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own — died Monday night. She was 73. […]