“The narrow pass, surrounded by three mountains, gradually opened wider, revealing all that it had, like the generosity of its people, but sometimes it also closed in on itself, like the Yazidi religion.”
The work being translated will be by Ameer Alhussein, Basma Abdel Aziz, and Kadhem Khanjar.
But as soon as he mentioned what he’d done, they confronted him with their frightening eyes and silencing voices: “God is not a person, and does not resemble people.”
“time is broad
hatching its eggs
greetings, welcome
those of ill-health”
“Note that if your work is accepted we will request an 800-1200 word contextualizing translator’s introduction.”
Not that I was usually punctual, but because the traffic was unexpectedly light along the corniche, flowing so smoothly a passenger in the microbus kept saying, “What’s up?”—unconvinced by any of the answers of the other passengers, commenting on them: “For sure, it’s something else,” without adding a different answer.
” Instead, people have been trying to find ways to approach it from different angles – to sneak up on the revolution from behind.”
The judges will be the editors of World Literature Today magazine, and the winners — in both prose and poetry categories — will each take $200.
“How do I kill the light in mine?”
