Sunday Submissions: The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
“Note that you must be a PEN member to nominate a translator for the prize.”
On Translation
Rabee Jaber’s ‘Confessions’ a PEN Center USA Translation Award 2017 Finalist
“It is Jaber’s Confessions, which is in sensuous, tactile translation by Abu-Zeid.”
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.”
Sunday Submissions: PEN Translation Prize Open Now
“The $3000 prize has had an Arabic winner once, in 2011, when Ibrahim Muhawi took the prize for his magic rendering of Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief.”
Sunday Submissions: Emerging Translator Mentorships
The application deadline is soon: July 28, 2017.
Saturday Summer Re-run: Ten Rules for Translating from Humphrey Davies and Jonathan Wright
“You can’t fight City Hall, even if everyone around you in your formative years always said ‘smelt’ rather than ‘smelled’.”
The Complete List: Entries for the 2017 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
“This year for the first time, we will be announcing a short list in December, following the judges’ meeting in late November.”
Arabic-to-Spanish Translators: Poetry-translation Contest Open Through July 31
“The idea is to celebrate literary dialogues, translation, poetry, poetry translation and linguistic diversity.”
Algerian Writer Samira Negrouche on Her 3 Mother Tongues, Translating Poetry, and Collaborative Writing
“The flower, the tree, the land — war gives another dimension to these words.”