The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East
2022-05-11
“Narrating the Middle East” is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.Continue Reading
Banipal Translation Prize Announces 2021’s 5-book Shortlist
2021-11-23
November 23, 2021 — This morning, organizers of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation announced this year’s shortlist. Three translators have made the shortlist of the Banipal Translation Prize for the first time in 2021: Sarah Enany (for her translation of Rasha Adly’s The Girl with theContinue Reading
Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ in Elisabeth Jaquette’s Translation, Longlisted for Warwick Prize
2021-10-28
There are 17 titles on the 2021 longlist, selected from amongst 115 eligible entries representing 28 languages. Continue Reading
Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail’, Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, Makes Booker Longlist
2021-03-30
“ooker International organizers announced 2021’s longlist Tuesday morning. Unsurprisingly, Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Lissie Jaquette, was on the 13-book list.”Continue Reading
Friday Finds: On Translating Sudanese Fiction
2021-01-22
The stories are part of a special portfolio of fiction from established and emerging Sudanese writers. Continue Reading
‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’ Shortlisted for 2020 Women in Translation Prize
2020-11-11
Organizers said, in a prepared statement, that the seven-book shortlist “reflects the diversity of the record number of entries submitted to the prize in 2020.”Continue Reading
‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’ Makes Longlist for 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
2020-10-27
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has announced the 16 titles longlisted for their fourth annual award. One title translated from the Arabic made the list: Rania Mamoun’s Thirteen Months of Sunrise, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.Continue Reading
#WiTMonth Bulaq: ‘The Frightened Ones’
2020-08-29
The Frightened Ones was shortlisted for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction; its English translation came out in the UK in April and was published in the US last week.Continue Reading
Pub Day: Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ Tr. Elisabeth Jaquette
2020-05-06
“Aside from these, nothing at all, just a great expanse of the arid Negev desert, over which crouched the intense August heat.”Continue Reading
