Young writer — and prospective literary translator — Nada Adel Sobhi sent in 18 pointed questions about the ins and outs of literary translation, ranging from money issues to publishing […]
In 2011 and 2012, ArabLit ran a series of “rules” for literary translators. More than 20 literary translators participated.
Forget blaming publishers, he said. The real culprits are reviewers.
A crowd assembled in NYC to watch a reading of a new theatrical translation by Marvin Carlson and Safi Mahfouz, the first in the “The Ibn Daniyal Trilogy,” which organizers called one of the “earliest secular plays known to humankind.” The exceptional night began with translator Marvin Carlson walking out, boycotting the event.
Eminent French translator Richard Jacquemond will be speaking at the Opera House’s Open Air Theater on April 15, at 7 p.m., on the topic of translation as a “A Matter of Deficiency or a Matter of Choice? Social Sciences in Arabic translation.”
As the Literature Across Frontiers strategy conference in Malta wrapped up, Dan Gorman wrote a post on the EeuroMedLit blog — made just for the conference — about launching a translation hub in the island nation.
In his tribute to translator and teacher Farouk Mustafa, who died Wednesday, Franklin Lewis noted that Mustafa’s “wit, erudition, eloquence, stentorian voice and impish sense of humor were well known to all who heard his presentations for the Arabic Circle ( الندوة العربية ), an institution which he lovingly nurtured for nearly 40 years at the University of Chicago, the sessions of which have in recent years fortunately been captured and preserved on the web. One of them was “My Experience with Literary Translation.”
Yesterday, award-winning translator and teacher Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa — who sometimes used the pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab — passed away following a short illness. He was 70.
