Sunday Submissions: Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing ‘In These Times of Intense Xenophobia’
“The 2016 winner was Deepak Unnikrishnan’s debut novel Temporary People, set among guest workers in the UAE.”
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Egyptian Novelist Nasser Iraq Wins Katara’s Top Prize for 2016
“This year, the overall published-novel prize went to Dubai-based Egyptian writer Nasser Iraq, for his “Azbakeya” (2015), a historical novel set in Egypt in Napoleon’s time.”
Meanwhile, in Italy: A Festival of Migrant Literature
The festival, which is set for October 12-16, promises “hundreds of guests, meetings, and shows in dozens of places in the city[.]”
Yasmina Jraissati on Six New Must-Translate Arabic Novels
Among the authors on Jraissati’s fall list, only Dima Wannous doesn’t have a book in English translation.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Halal if You Hear Me’
“Editors Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo are looking for poems and essays ‘on any theme.'”
‘Al-Multaqa Prize’ for the Short Story Announces Inaugural Longlist
Al-Multaqa Prize for the Short Story has announced its inaugural longlist, for collections published in 2015-2016: The new Kuwait-based prize is unusual in celebrating the overlooked short-story genre. As Jordanian […]
Sunday Submissions: ‘Delos,’ a Journal of Translation and World Literature
“As previously announced, Delos is not a Eurocentric publication.”
Hassan Blasim on Shortlist for New Swedish ‘Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns’ Prize for Translations
“For Anglophone fans, Blasim will be at the Ilkley Literature Festival on October 14 at 7:30 p.m. to talk about the forthcoming collection he’s edited, ‘Iraq + 100’.”
Queerness in Khaled Khalifa’s ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’
“There is no shortage of varieties of shame: of body, of one’s sexuality or lack of sexuality, of modest or immodest dress, of impoverished dress, of ugliness, of age, of illness, of disability, of vanity, of religion, of doubting one’s religion, of being complicit with the regime, of Syrianness, of having no ‘important’ family roots, of people who talk incessantly about their roots.”