Sunday Submissions: Stephen Spender Prize
The judges for this year’s Stephen Spender Prize are Mary Jean Chan, Khairani Barokka, and Daljit Nagra.
Poetry
Friday Finds: YA in Translation by Taghreed Najjar, Djamila Morani, and Sonia Nimr
Words Without Borders has posted a new special issue this kid-lit-heavy month, “Time-Travelers, Fisherwomen, and Sleuths: Arabic Young Adult Literature,” curated by translator Elisabeth Jaquette.
2020 Int’l Prize for Arabic Fiction to Abdelouahab Aissaoui’s ‘The Spartan Court’
Judges today announced the winner of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction — Abdelouahab Aissaoui’s The Spartan Court, the first Algerian novel to win the prize — in a ceremony that took place entirely online.
Excerpts to Read While Waiting for International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announcement, Today
Meantime, you can read translated excerpts from each of the shortlisted books online.
New Fiction in Translation: Belal Fadl’s ‘Into the Tunnel’
“Yet all they could see was the hollow emptiness of the tunnel, which looked as if it had never seen traffic in its life.”
2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners: Barakat, Al Jayyusi, Ouhaïbi
Organizers of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced the winners — in seven categories — of their 14th annual prize.
Etel Adnan’s ‘Time’ Makes Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
Four books made the 2020 international shortlist, but just one translation: Etel Adnan’s “Time,” translated from the French by Sarah Riggs.
Two Books by Ramy al-Asheq Forthcoming in English Translation
“The situation in Syria for the past decade has been complicated and confounding, and Ramy’s work emerges out of this confusion not to give us solutions but instead to bring us into it as well.”
Special Limited Publication: Stories from Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats’
Four stories from Muhammad al-Hajj’s Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats are available free on ArabLit until the end of this month.