Summer Re-runs: On Turning ‘Sayyidat al-Qamr’ into ‘Celestial Bodies’ and the Tyranny of the New
“Oh!! Titles… sometimes I think I stress over titles – and opening sentences – for more hours than I spend on the rest of the translation.”
“Oh!! Titles… sometimes I think I stress over titles – and opening sentences – for more hours than I spend on the rest of the translation.”
“A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over.”
The £50,000 prize for the winning book, set to be announced on May 21, will be divided equally between its author and translator.
“So, the most decisive situation is when I read something and think: I cannot stand for someone else to translate this, it has to be me.”