21 Winners: 2019 Katara Prize for the Arabic Novel
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.
Poetry
Sunday Submissions: ALTA Arabic Mentorship
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.
Friday Finds: ‘Dance’ by Widyan Almasarani
“You are my prison, you are my prison and my freedom, you are the one I hate and the one I love.”
Khaled Khalifa’s ‘Death is Hard Work’ a National Book Award Finalist
Winners will be announced on November 20.
Sunday Submissions: Seeking ‘Unpublishable’ Translations
“co•im•press likes working with unsung, under-sung, or new translators and authors.”
An Ever-so-short History of the ‘Complex, Capacious’ Sudanese Short Story
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 Arabic Short-story Collections Announces 2019 Longlist
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.
On Playwright Yusuf al-Ani
“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.”
Friday Finds: ‘Another Description of the Locust’
Thigh of a camel, shank of an ostrich,
a vulture’s paw and the breast of a biting lion.