Friday Finds: 5 By and About Abdelrahman Munif
“The first book that I read was for adults, ‘East of the Mediterranean,’ by the renowned author Abdul Rahman Munif. I read it when I was eight years old.”
Poetry
‘Dar Arab’ Publishing House Announces First Translations to English
Dar Arab also tweeted: “For this project / dream, the books were chosen as carefully as the translators … the road is long but we are natural-born runners.”
3 Poems from Sillerman-shortlisted El Habib Louai
They got nothing except / Seven sheepskins on hard floors / The Sultan’s black and white photograph on blank walls / A guerba of goat skin full of well water / Broken jugs, hay-stuffed rucksack pillows & clay plates
Sonallah Ibrahim’s ‘Ice,’ tr. Margaret Litvin, Makes EBRD Longlist
The €20,000 prize is for both author and translator. Two runners-up and their translators will also receive a prize of €1,000 each.
‘Woman at Point Zero’ Opera Nominated for Fedora Prize
The €150,000 prize, awarded in June, goes toward the commission and production of the winning opera.
Sunday Submissions: The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts
Gabo Prize winners receive $200 and publication in the next issue of Lunch Ticket.
Works by Mansoura Ez Eldin, Mamdouh Azzam, Moncef Ouhaïbi Make SZBA Literature Shortlist
According to organizers, a total of 1900 entries were subbed this year; 438 for the literature category, 498 for the young-author category, and 205 in children’s literature.
‘If I Hadn’t Written “Kobani,” I Would’ve Lost My Mind’
“The subjects, the structures, and the writing style are different between my Arabic books and Kurdish ones.”
Friday Finds: New Stories in Translation by Mazen Maarouf and Najwa Binshatwan
Herodotus had been around since 400 BC.
During the Benghazi bombings, he made a run for it.