CORRECTION: The 2008 longlist is not on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction website (English, Arabic) and was, I’m told, sent to journalists after the shortlist was released in 2008.
However, a journalist-novelist has now sent along a copy of the 2008 longlist.Continue Reading
His interest shifted from the mechanisms of political reform to a social revolution. Women’s liberation, he said, “is at the heart” of this. Continue Reading
“I found that very strange and hard to digest – and I mean that as a compliment.”Continue Reading
The PEN-supported collection features writing by the pseudonymous Anoud, as well as Hassan Abdulrazzak, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Zhraa Alhaboby, Ali Bader, Hassan Blasim, Mortada Gzar, Jalal Hasan, Diaa Jubaili and Khalid Kaki.Continue Reading
Nine Arab authors and Arabic-English translators discuss their favorite reads from 2016.Continue Reading
“When patience is poorly rewarded, you will certainly hear Bahrainis express their frustration by likening the situation to ‘breaking one’s fast with an onion.’ And after a little over a year’s worth of waiting, Bahrain’s 18th International Book Fair is that onion.”Continue Reading
Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.Continue Reading
“Is there a difference between men’s and women’s war stories?”Continue Reading
“If I’m reading a book and I think halfway through, ‘wow, I might like to translate this’ it’s usually because the architecture of the book is building to a powerful crescendo of meaning.”Continue Reading
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