Coming Sept 2026: Modern Classics and YA, Plus a Day of Translation
This month, we have books and events coming in September 2026, as well as one we missed from the end of August.
Bushra Khalfan
Translating Oman
The”Translating Oman” event, hosted by Syracuse University Press, featured a discussion about Omani literature and translation.
IPAF-Shortlisted Author Bushra Khalfan: ‘Novelists are Made of the Same Stuff as Magicians’
“I am somehow a slow writer, which means that it takes so long for the ideas to be processed internally. And as the idea itself is processing, a certain amount of research will be taking place, and that usually takes a few years.”
Three Gulf Authors Make 6-book Shortlist of 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Judging chair for the 2022 International Prize of Arabic Fiction, Choukri al-Mabkhout, today announced the prize’s six shortlisted novels for this year. For the first time, the shortlist included novels written by authors from the UAE and Oman.