World Cup Short Fiction: Adania Shibli’s ‘A Tin Ball’
This week, we’re celebrating the World Cup with work from our Fall 2021 FOOTBALL issue.
Adania Shibli
‘To Keep That Wrongness’: Adania Shibli on Relating to Language in ‘Minor Detail’
By Alex Tan On 12 September 2024, the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli was in New York City to speak about her novel Minor Detail in conversation with Ethiopian-American writer Maaza […]
Short Stories by 10 Palestinian Women, in English Translation
By ArabLit Staff The history of the Palestinian short story in Arabic is marked by many women writers, from the innovative works of mid-century authors like Samira Azzam (1927-1967); to, […]
Readings of ‘Minor Detail’ at Frankfurt Book Fair and in Berlin
In the wake of the unspecified “postponement” of the Litprom award ceremony for the German translation of Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, and the cancellation of Shibli’s event at the Frankfurt Book […]
Short Fiction: Adania Shibli’s ‘A Tin Ball’
This story appeared in the FOOTBALL issue of ArabLit Quarterly, which you can still get in print and digital. A Tin Ball By Adania Shibli Translator anonymous The war, it seemed, was […]
Adania Shibli Wins Germany’s 2023 LiBeraturpreis for ‘Minor Detail’
JULY 26, 2023 — Palestinian author Adania Shibli has won the 2023 LiBeraturpreis for the German translation of her novel تفصيل ثانوي (Minor Detail) translated from Arabic into German as […]
Kanafani and Shibli: Different Stagings of Palestine, Different Stagings of Death
In an essay that originally appeared in Turkish, novelist Süreyyya Evren explores the deaths in works by Ghassan Kanafani and Adania Shibli.
Adania Shibli on Samira Azzam: ‘Out of Time’
“My little watch is the first to sense the change, going into and out of Palestine.”
Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ in Elisabeth Jaquette’s Translation, Longlisted for Warwick Prize
There are 17 titles on the 2021 longlist, selected from amongst 115 eligible entries representing 28 languages.