The first prize is £350, second prize is £200, third prize is £100, and other entries may receive commendations.
Arabic Events at American Literary Translators Association’s 2020 (Virtual) Conference
The complete 2020 schedule is now online. For this year's virtual event, there will be five types of events. These are: sessions, readings, workshops, special events, and -- for the first time this year -- caucuses.
Friday Finds: The Dialects of Oil & Rain
At the end of last month, three writers -- Mona Kareem, Deepak Unnikrishnan, and Krupa Ge -- talked about translation, transience, the Gulf, belonging, and more.
Shadow Heroes: Arabic Translation (and More) in the Classroom
"Translation is not a field of instant (or even delayed) validation. Mostly we do the work and leave it in the proverbial drawer for months or years, or we send it out into the world and hear nothing (or just murmurs) back. So classroom work offers a nice change."
Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on Translating Mahmoud Darwish into Turkish
"For instance, the Palestinian society is more familiar with references to Christianity than the Turkish society. ... So while translating Darwish's works, I brought the references to verses from the Bible or the Torah to the attention of Turkish readers."
‘Inventing a Night Language’: On Translating the 1001
"I wanted to see if I could create a night-language, or find some form to reflect the fact that this is a night work...and the fact that these stories take place where dreams should be."
New Brazilian Publisher Editora Tabla To Focus on Arabic Titles
“There were no publishers targeting that region alone," di Pietro told ANBA, "so we thought it would be really cool if we could represent a culture that’s so important, including for the Portuguese language.”
Summer of Lock-in Lit: Cartooning with Popeye & Curly
"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea in my head. Other times I ravage entire books looking for the spark of a joke. I have read more widely on the subject of medieval Baghdad this spring and summer than I have since grad school, and this has been time very well spent."
Arabic Literature, Norwegian Readers: Oda Winsnes on Translating Into a Small Language
"There are quite enough experts, prophets, and talking heads analyzing the Middle East, but I think our job as translators is to not get in the way of authors expressing themselves by editing, interpreting, and adapting their work."
Stella Gaitano’s ‘Eddo’s Souls,’ ‘Book of Ramallah’ Win PEN Translates Awards
For the first time, one of the "PEN Translates" awards will go to a South Sudanese novel.
‘Avarice and Fury’
spotted lion, tense/ tired of lockdown/ take the cheetah hunting?/ wait and pine/
Marilyn Booth: ‘I Try To Let the Arabic Guide Me’
"Often being literal -- or almost literal -- is the best way to do it. So I try to let the Arabic guide me. I'm also a translator who often leaves quite a lot of Arabic in the text, and I have to come up with ways of explaining that but without being heavy about it."
