Catherine Cobham

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Ghayath Almadhoun and Catherine Cobham Win 2026 National Translation Award

October 23, 2026

One title translated from Arabic was on the longlists for the 2026 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose, and that one title — I Have Brought You a Severed Hand, written by Ghayath Almadhoun and translated by Catherine Cobham — won the poetry category award.

News Barbara Romaine', Bushra al-Maqtari, Catherine Cobham, Christiaan James, forthcoming 2022, Hadiya Hussein, Iman Mersal, Mohammed AlAjmi, Nouri Al-Jarrah, Robyn Creswell, Sawad Hussain

Coming in October: Iman Mersal, Bushra al-Maqtari & more

October 1, 2022

This month, we can look forward to new non-fiction, poetry, and novels in translation.

Poetry Catherine Cobham, filmpoem, Ghayath Almadhoun, poetry film, ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

Friday Finds: Ghayath Almadhoun’s ZEBRA-winning Filmpoem, ‘Évian’

November 27, 2020

“Like a visual representation of the unconscious it is a big unknowable that flows without a break, wave after wave, thought after thought, bearing the words of the poem.”