"Isn’t our notion of the classic influenced by the other? Doesn’t the standing of Arabic literature rely upon foreign literature?"
Rebecca Johnson’s ‘Stranger Fictions: The History of the Novel in Arabic Translation’
"But when you think of it instead as an single literary field that contains a porous border between the translation and the original, then you start to think of translation as a form of novelistic production, as critique, as interpretation. It can even be theory."
Tareq Imam: ‘The Writer Has Become Everyone’s Target’
"Translators have approached me in the past about translating my work into English, but it didn’t come to anything because I wasn’t comfortable with some of their editorial suggestions, such as amplifying a particular aspect of the text or emphasizing an element to which I hadn’t given prominence."
Friday Finds: Jalal al-Ahmadi in English, Croatian, French, and Italian
Now I sit alone / around a circular table / Now I sit circularly / around myself
Kaouther Adimi’s ‘Our Riches,’ Abdellah Taïa’s ‘A Country for Dying’ Finalists for PEN Translation Prize
The two novels translated from French were both written by Maghrebi authors: Our Riches, by Algerian novelist Kaouther Adimi, was translated from the French by Chris Andrews; and A Country for Dying: A Novel, by Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa, was translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.
Winter 2021 PEN Translates Awards: Algerian Historical Crime, Kurdish SF, Syrian Synesthesia, & More
They will support 15 titles from 14 countries in 12 languages, including two titles translated from Arabic.
Sunday Submissions: Arabic Translation Mentoring Program
The Arabic Translation Mentoring Programme from New Writing North will support "emerging ArabicEnglish translators with a 9-month professional development programme." Applications are open now.
Sunday Submissions: Lunch Ticket’s Literary Translation Contest, the ‘Gabo Prize’
The submissions window for Lunch Ticket's literary translation contest, the Gabo Prize, is open through January 31.
Katharine Halls Wins PEN/Heim to Translate Haytham El-Wardany’s ‘Things That Can’t Be Fixed’
Eleven projects from 10 languages have won 2021 PEN/Heim translation grants.
An Overview of 2021 Releases: 30+ Arabic Books in English Translation
A preview of literary works of Arabic forthcoming in English translation in 2021.
A Search for Beauty and Appreciation: Kay Heikkinen on Translating ‘Velvet’
" I will never look at rain the same way I used to; the author talks about it as if it were a living being with a will, attacking the earth, and how it has an effect on the streets."
Winners Announced: 2020 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation
"This round -- the prize's sixth -- awarded translations between Arabic and seven different languages: English, Persian, Pashto, Bengali, Swedish, Korean and Hausa."
