Sunday Submissions: 2020 ALTA Travel Fellowships
The deadline to apply is April 20; winners will be notified in early July.
On Translation
On How to Translate ‘Poetry is the Diwan of the Arabs’
“Between a static entity “a book” and a dynamic space exactly falls the metaphor of Diwan here as intended by Abu Feras. I suggest a translation that considers the dynamics of dialectical story telling. E.g: Poetry is Arabs epicus. Poetry is Arabs odyssey.”
Sunday Submission: Session Proposals for ALTA43, ‘In Between’
“We invite panels, readings, roundtables, and workshops that address the theme “In Between,” broadly conceived, including topics such as: translating from a place of multiple belongings, translating migrant writing, translating code-switching, translating heritage, translating indigenous languages, translating beyond gender binaries, and translating hybrid genres.”
On International Literature and Travel
When invited to write this essay, I wish I had taken the opportunity to tell you why you should read Petra.
Sunday Submissions: Warwick Translates 2020
Also: Attendees can choose to work in one language or to split their time between two languages by attending morning workshops in one language and afternoon workshops in the other.
Friday Finds: Language and Craft in the ‘Thousand and One Nights’
The talk, titled “Her Own Devices: Language and Craft in the Thousand and One Nights,” is introduced by Marina Warner.
4 of NEA’s Literature Translation Fellowships to Arabic Projects
Each of the 24 Literature Translation fellows are set to receive $12,500 each, for a total of $300,000. The fellowships will support the English translation of works from 19 countries; most are to translate works of award-winning and bestselling authors.
Leri Price Wins 2019 Banipal Translation Award
Leri Price has won the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her “sharp and unobtrusive” translation of Khaled Khalifa’s “Death is Hard Work.”
Sunday Submissions: Translator-in-residence at University of Iowa
Past recipients include Deborah Smith, Jennifer Croft, and Katherine Silver. More about how to apply at the University of Iowa website.