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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Najwa Binshatwan: It’s Time for Libyan Writers to Prove Themselves
“Often, readers tell me I should write about one subject or another, and I don’t like this sort of relationship, where readers approach the writer as though they’re a machine or a mythical creature.”
Read moreJudges Deliberating on Saif Ghobash Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Banipal has apparently been saving up their news, as a whole bunch of it appeared in my inbox this morning. Among the news items: judges will be deliberating on the Saif Ghobash – Banipal prize-winners later this month.
Read moreThe Stories of Luay Hamza Abbas
There are two stories by Luay Hamza Abbas in Banipal 37: Iraqi Authors, “The Pictures” and “Ali the Red,” and I think they’re well worth discussing. The prose—translated by the […]
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