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.
Poetry
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.
3 Poems from Rasha Omran’s New Collection
“Because I, too, know that no one dies of love, / I live my life like a normal woman.”
Sunday Submissions: Mophradat Writing Sabbatical Grants
“The grant ranges from US$600 to US$1,300 per month determined by Mophradat based on the local living costs of the country of residency of the applicant, and covers from one and up to three months period depending on the writers’ need.”
A Few Literary References To Go with TV’s ‘Baghdad Central’
Poetry was another thing Colla said he thought a lot about while he was writing Baghdad Central.
Playwright Lenin El-Ramly, 1945-2020
According to Ahram Online, El-Ramly’s wife — the writer Fatma El Maadoul — stated that he’d died after spending nearly a week in intensive care.
Friday Finds: Zakariya Tamer’s ‘The Policeman and the Horse’
“The horse was angry for no reason.”