Sunday Submissions: The 2016 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
” Excerpts from longer works are welcome and preference will be given to contemporary work published within the last fifty years.”
On Translation
‘Seeing the Back of Anthropological, Forensic, and White-savior Interest in Arabic Literature’
“In a way, every genre is specific to its literary history, right?”
Sunday Submissions: 2017 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
“The Fund seeks to encourage translators to undertake projects they might not otherwise have had the means to attempt.”
‘Manifesto for Translation’ Signed by Adonis, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Sonallah Ibrahim, Others
We want this “Manifesto for translation” to be a call for active mobilization in favour of a concrete policy supporting translation and cultural works in the Mediterranean.
Sunday Submissions: Call for National Translation Awards Expert Readers in Poetry and Prose
Anyone interested should email by June 24 if interested.
It’s Bloomsday: Reading Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ in Arabic
“But Iraqi poet Salah Niazi, who has also translated Macbeth and Hamlet, didn’t cite problems with the first translation when he explained why he started his own translation of Ulysses in 1984.”
New in Collaborative Translation: ‘Half Life,’ by Gibran Khalil Gibran
“You are a person! You exist to live a full life, not a half life.”
Sunday Submissions: New $5000 Global Humanities Translation Prize
The annual prize will go to a “previously unpublished translation that strikes the delicate balance beween scholarly rigor, aesthetic grace, and general readability, as judged by a rotating committee of distinguished international scholars and literati.”
Palestinian Writer Raji Bathish on the ‘Conscious Decision to Authoring Queer, Sexualized Texts’
“Do you think this queerness can enrich Palestinian culture?”