Join Banipal’s May book club to discuss Shada Mustafa’s “Things I Left Behind,” translated by Nancy Roberts.
Read moreKhaled Khalifa: Writing in the Time of War
Khaled Khalifa will deliver the 2022 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship annual lecture on “Writing in the Time of War.” He will be speaking about his own experience and reading from his novel Death is Hard Work.
Read moreBanipal Book Club: Shahla Ujayli’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’
The Banipal Book Club will be discussing Shahla Ujyali’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’, tr. Sawad Hussain, on Wednesday, February 23.
Read moreBanipal Book Club: ‘The Girl With Braided Hair’ by Rasha Adly
The book under discussion is Rasha Adly’s “The Girl With Braided Hair,” tr. Sarah Enany, published by Hoopoe Fiction, and the winner of the 2021 Saif Gobash Banipal Prize.
Read moreBanipal Issue 70: ‘Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem’
The Spring 2021 issue of Banipal, their 70th, has a special focus on Palestinian author Mahmoud Shukair.
Read moreJoin Banipal Fellows and Translators in Zoom Talk Tomorrow
Tomorrow at 4 p.m. BST, Banipal magazine and St. Aidan’s College will be hosting a Zoom event to celebrate five years of the Banipal visiting writer fellowship.
Read moreAvailable Now: A Translation of Tayeb Salih’s ‘Mansi, A Rare Man in His Own Way’
Salih went on to publish four novels as well as many other books, including his popular منسي إنسان نادر على طريقته (Mansi: A Rare Man in His Own Way), published in 2004, five years before the author’s death.
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4-Book Shortlist for 2019 Banipal Translation Prize Announced
The £3,000 award is given annually for works “of imaginative and creative writing of literary merit and general interest.”
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Hammour Ziada 2019 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow
St. Alban’s College and Banipal magazine have announced that Sudanese author Hammour Ziada has won the 2019 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship.
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