Friday Finds: ‘Come Out from Darkness Never’
“and he said to me Who are you and who am I and I saw the sun and the moon and the stars and all the lights ashine.”
Poetry
3 Collections for ‘Sudan / South Sudan Literature Week’
The writers featured include Ibrahim Ishaq (in ‘Literary Sudans’), Leila Aboulela, Mansour El Souwaim (‘Beirut 39’), Mamoun Eltlib (‘Book of Khartoum’), Stella Gaitano (‘ArabLit Quarterly’, ‘Banipal 55’), and others, including Griselda El Tayib and her recently launched ‘Regional Folk Costumes of the Sudan’.
Sunday Submissions: 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize
Previous winners include Sudanese poet Safia Elhillo, who also won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
Literary Playlist: Selim Batti’s ‘I’m Not Leaving My House’
“You will find many Fairuz songs in the playlist, which details the progression of the complex ideas and emotions evoked in the novel.”
‘African Titanics’ and a New Literature of Immigration
“At any rate, the continuing launch of books at the fair proves the importance of printed material in today’s world, where the image and electronic media seem so dominant. This year, the list of newly published books give a sense of the ascendancy of writing and publishing on the Sudanese cultural scene.”
Sunday Submissions: Poetry Collection for Orison Books
Orison Books is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts — a minimum of 60 pages — in English translation through the end of this month.
Unreckoned: Experimental Translations of Ibn Arabi
Moger described the distinctive approach they took to translating Ibn Arabi, attempting to treat each poem as an individual text without embedding it in a scholarly apparatus.
Arabic Speculative Fiction at the New York Public Library
” I think there’s a growing curiosity about Arabic literature amongst English-language readers in the U.S., and I wanted to teach this class in order to give New York readers a community in which to explore that together.”
60 Arabic Stories in Malayalam Translation
Qudsi noted that, “You find nearly a dozen Malayalam publishers in the international book exhibition centers of Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.” He said he has “no doubt that Malayalam bookselling [finds] a profitable market in the Gulf book fairs.”