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Saturday Summer Re-run: Ten Rules for Translating from Humphrey Davies and Jonathan Wright
“You can’t fight City Hall, even if everyone around you in your formative years always said ‘smelt’ rather than ‘smelled’.”
The Complete List: Entries for the 2017 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
“This year for the first time, we will be announcing a short list in December, following the judges’ meeting in late November.”
Arabic-to-Spanish Translators: Poetry-translation Contest Open Through July 31
“The idea is to celebrate literary dialogues, translation, poetry, poetry translation and linguistic diversity.”
Algerian Writer Samira Negrouche on Her 3 Mother Tongues, Translating Poetry, and Collaborative Writing
“The flower, the tree, the land — war gives another dimension to these words.”
2 Arabic Books Make 2017 ‘National Translation Award’ Longlists
The National Translation Awards, now in their nineteenth year, promise to be “the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.”
Sunday Submissions: 2017 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
“Excerpts from longer works are welcome and preference will be given to contemporary work published within the last fifty years.”
Friday Finds: Two Views on Arabic-Nordic Literature
“Therefore, it is important that future policy actions should focus on enabling support structures and facilities that would allow the publishing and translation of Arabic literature within the Nordic region.”
Palestinian Short-story Collection, Syrian Graphic Novel Make ‘Record’ List of PEN Translates Awards
The Palestinian short-story collection is by Gazan writer Nayrouz Qarmout, whose “The Sea Cloak” first appeared in the Book of Gaza, ed. Atef Abu Saif. It’s being brought into English by emerging translator Perween Richards.
Translating ‘Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge’: ‘Evil, Banal, and Kind of Understandable’
“The great thing about the book is that you can one minute want to shake almost any of the characters by the shoulders and then at the next sympathize. Even the central character in Goliath’s Eye chapter, is simultaneously evil, banal, and kind of understandable, in an appalling way.”
Friday Finds: Anton Shammas on ‘Translating Palestinian Pain’
“But I do know, deep inside, that the act of translating Taha Muhammad Ali into Hebrew was, for me, a kind of prayer, for me who never prays, because prayer is a one-way message, and those who pray don’t expect to hear answers to their supplications, but they go on.”
Goodbye, Denys (1922-2017)
If modern Arabic literature in English translation had a patron saint, it was Denys Johnson-Davies.
