Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2020 Longlist
The thirteen-book longlist — made up of eleven novels and two poetry collections — was chosen from among 438 nominated titles.
Poetry
Sunday Submissions: ‘Denver Quarterly’ Seeking Translations
“Though not required, translators are invited to submit a Translator’s Note of 350 words or less.”
Saturday Submissions: ‘The Arkansas International’
“We welcome prose submissions of up to 8,000 words, poem packets of up to five poems, and ask that excerpts from longer works be self-contained.”
Friday Finds: ‘An Authentic Corruption’ by Hermes
“I do not write in the day what I write in the night / because I am like the owl, I have / a slow wing clap and eyes / open to the blight.”
International Prize for Arabic Fiction: 2020 Longlist Includes 4 from Algeria, Well-Known Writers
In his statement Yasir Suleiman, chair of the Board of Trustees, noted that the longlist was dominated by North African writers, with four books by Algerians, one by a Moroccan writer, one from Tunisia, one from Libya, and two from Egypt. No publisher, this year, had more than two books on the longlist.
New Fiction in Translation: Excerpt from ‘Dragon of Bethlehem’
“A lizard? Shame on you. Of course, I mean, all due respect to the lizards. But I am not a lizard. I am a dragon.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘The Poetry of the Arab Revolutions’
Submissions of 2-3 poems are preferred, but individual poem submissions will also be accepted.
2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist Coming December 17
Next Tuesday, prize organizers are set to announce not only the 16-book longlist, but also the panel of five judges who selected the novels.
Cover Reveal and 7 Poems: ‘The Olive Trees’ Jazz’
Above our heads a vertical shadow
vibrates
a shadow that flaps above our heads