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 […]
Read moreAdania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ in Elisabeth Jaquette’s Translation, Longlisted for Warwick Prize
There are 17 titles on the 2021 longlist, selected from amongst 115 eligible entries representing 28 languages.
Read moreAdania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail’, Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, Makes Booker Longlist
“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.”
Read moreFriday Finds: On Translating Sudanese Fiction
The stories are part of a special portfolio of fiction from established and emerging Sudanese writers.
Read more‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’ Shortlisted for 2020 Women in Translation Prize
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.”
Read more‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’ Makes Longlist for 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
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.
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#WiTMonth Bulaq: ‘The Frightened Ones’
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.
Read morePub Day: Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail,’ Tr. Elisabeth Jaquette
“Aside from these, nothing at all, just a great expanse of the arid Negev desert, over which crouched the intense August heat.”
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Arabic Speculative Fiction at the New York Public Library
” I think there’s a growing curiosity about Arabic literature amongst English-language readers in the U.S., and I wanted to teach this class in order to give New York readers a community in which to explore that together.”
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