From the beginning, Khashabi chose to be an independent theater, which has meant refusing institutional Israeli financial support, as, organizers say, “we believe in the importance of an independent and free Palestinian cultural scene.”
The five winners of the “novel” category receive $60,000 each, the manuscript category $30,000 each, the studies $15,000 each, the YA novels $10,000 each, and the Qatari novel a further $60,000.
Applications are open through December 8, 2019, and the program is set to run from February-November, 2020, culminating at the ALTA conference in Tucson, AZ.
“You are my prison, you are my prison and my freedom, you are the one I hate and the one I love.”
Winners will be announced on November 20.
“co•im•press likes working with unsung, under-sung, or new translators and authors.”
The essay “In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form,” by ArabLit editor M Lynx Qualey, appears on LitHub.
AlMultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story has announced their 2019 longlist, made up of 10 short-story collections by authors from eight different countries.
“The central themes that emerge are al-Ani’s role as an organic intellectual who championed the dispossessed and identified with the left across his roles as theatre practitioner, playwright and actor. This came to see him identified as ‘the people’s artist’ during his ownlifetime, expression and function of his artistic craft merging into a coherent approach.”
