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
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.
The €150,000 prize, awarded in June, goes toward the commission and production of the winning opera.
Gabo Prize winners receive $200 and publication in the next issue of Lunch Ticket.
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.
“The subjects, the structures, and the writing style are different between my Arabic books and Kurdish ones.”
Herodotus had been around since 400 BC.
During the Benghazi bombings, he made a run for it.
“Because I, too, know that no one dies of love, / I live my life like a normal woman.”
“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.”
