On Translation

The deadline for this call is November 30, so if you’re in Lebanon and are interested in translating theater from Arabic into English or French, well:   The Shams Association plans to hold […]

Someone coordinating a database of translated Arabic works has asked for a little help coming up with a list of publishers who produce literary translations, Arabic –> English. Useful, right? […]

Dr. Mona Elnamoury attended the Eleventh Cairo International Symposium: on “Creativity and the Revolution” and shared her observations about the translatability of the funny bone.  By Mona Elnamoury If the Egyptians are […]

Dar al-Ma’mûn, the NEA, and PEN — like the HOT — have deadlines approaching. # RESIDENCIES: Dar al-Ma’mûn’s Omar Berrada notes that the organization was granted the Unesco-Aschberg label for 2013, […]

You can download the application in Arabic or in English.

Chinese fiction is hhhhot, the magazine BusinessWeek unsurprisingly reports.  The Chinese reportedly worked hard to get “their” literature Nobel, which is, more specifically, Mo Yan’s 2012 Nobel. This makes it a banner year […]

The new Pirogue Poet Series, which aims to “encourage long-term, sustained dialogue between African artists and writers and the rest of the world,” has published its first volume: Andre Naffis-Sahely’s translation of Abdellatif Laâbi’s The Rule of Barbarism (1976 Fr; 2012 Eng). The visceral, searing collection, which throbs with Laâbi’s powerful orality, was first published while the poet was serving an eight-year prison sentence (1972-1980) for “crimes of opinion” against the Moroccan state. There is an excerpt now on Jadaliyya; ArabLit also corresponded with Naffis-Sahely about translating the book:

A list of prizes open to translators who work between Arabic and English.