Two Arabic Translations Longlisted for 2019 PEN Awards
Yesterday, PEN America announced the longlists for its 2019 literary awards.
On Translation
Sunday Submissions: The Käpylä Translation Prize
Happily, there is no entry fee.
Sunday Submissions: Poetry Collection for Orison Books
Orison Books is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts — a minimum of 60 pages — in English translation through the end of this month.
Unreckoned: Experimental Translations of Ibn Arabi
Moger described the distinctive approach they took to translating Ibn Arabi, attempting to treat each poem as an individual text without embedding it in a scholarly apparatus.
‘Loss Sings’: Translating Grief
“Experienced translators know that for literary translations to be possible they must decide what they are prepared to leave out as much as what they have to retain…literary translation is thus more akin to trauma than it is to memory.”
Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger on Co-translating Ibn Arabi
According to Moger, the two poet-translators “will be presenting their correspondence-in-translations of poems from Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman Al Ashwaq, as well as projects of their own, to discuss the process of translation in terms of communion and distance, frustration and aspiration, constraint and freedom, and of voices lost and made.”
Sunday Submissions: The 2018 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
This year’s final judge is Ilya Kaminsky, who, according to Gulf Coast, “has generously offered to read more than 50 finalists and respond to each of them with a sentence or two.”
David Larsen’s Translation of ‘Names of the Lion’ Wins Harold Morton Landon Award
On his website, Larsen describes the book as “A thesaurus. A word list. A bestiary with only one beast.”
Samah Selim Wins $12.5K NEA Grant to Translate ‘Sultana’
“‘Sultana’ is Ghalib Halasa’s last and most autobiographical novel.”