This is the second Library of Arabic Literature title to make an NTA longlist.
Leri Price’s Translation of Khaled Khalifa’s ‘No Knives’ Makes 2017 NTA Shortlist
"'No Knives' advances to the NTA's five-book shortlist along with titles translated from the Spanish, German, French, and Swedish."
2 Arabic Books Make 2017 ‘National Translation Award’ Longlists
The National Translation Awards, now in their nineteenth year, promise to be "the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work."
Humphrey Davies Shortlisted for National Translation Award for Al-Shidyaq’s ‘Leg Over Leg’
"This is a book about books, about conventions of writing, reading, bookmaking, cultural creation and crossings, bristling with puns and long digressions about the “oddities of language, including its rare words”—a preoccupation that makes Davies’ translation all the more remarkable as a work of literature and scholarship both."
