“[O]nly 0.6% of translations of foreign works into French are from the Arabic.”
publishing business
UAE-based Kalimat Partners With Bloomsbury; They Will Publish Translations of Each Other’s Titles
“The partnership will see both publishing companies exchange the same number of books to be published in translation each year.”
‘Kalimat Quarto’ Latest Arab-English Joint Publishing Venture
“They have amazing illustrated books. So we’re going to be launching cookbooks with them.”
AUCPress Launches New Imprint for ‘Engaged, Open-minded Readers’
“From historical epics, social satire, police procedurals and stories of the future Middle East: we will publish the exciting and the unexpected.”
10 of the Best Crowdfunded Literary Projects: International
The successful campaigns share a few characteristics: large networks, good explanation of where the money’s going, decent (to fabulous) perks, and a lot of hard outreach work.
A Focus on ‘Places and Languages that Don’t See Much Movement into English’
I was skeptical when Darf Publishers relaunched “with a focus on Arabic literature in translation.”
Arabic Literature in Translation Faces ‘Racial Profiling and Bias’
A March 24 conversation on contemporary Arabic fiction — between short-story writers Hassan Blasim and Hisham Bustani, editors Jennifer Acker and John Siciliano, scholar Mohamed El Sawi Hassan, and publisher Michel Moushabeck — is now online: Although Bustani loomed over the… Read More ›
‘Disrupt! Books!’ Winner Wants to Help Writers Navigate Arabic Publishing World
The Netherlands-based NGO Hivos recently sponsored a “Disrupt! Books!” event in Amman “dedicated…to investigating the possibilities of the internet for the traditional Arabic publishing industries[.]”
Second ‘And Other Stories’ Arabic Reading Group Launches This Month
The And Other Stories Arabic Reading Group is back with three more Syrian books being considered for publication in English.
How to Crowdfund Your Translation
A piece in Qantara magazine explores the new trend of crowdfunding support for translations and provides tips from successful crowdfunders.
New Imprint Looking to Translate Women’s Poetry, Redress Translation’s Gender Balance
Periscope is a new imprint from A Midsummer Night’s Press devoted to women’s poetry in translation. Publisher-translator-poet Lawrence Schimel answered questions (why women? why translation? how exactly will this work?) ahead of the house’s Nov. 1 launch.
Dear Will: Why I’m Not Starting My Own Publishing House
In the most recent Brooklyn Quarterly, Deep Vellum publisher Will Evans writes an impassioned essay that declares, “I Want You To Start Your Own Publishing House.”
