Thirteen titles representing works from ten languages have been shortlisted for the second round of PEN Presents, English PEN’s award for sample translations.Among the awardees is Ibrahim Fawzy, for a translation of Khaled Nasrallah’s ‘The White Line of Night.’Continue Reading
Join PEN America’s 3rd installment of their Women in Translation Reading Series 2022, featuring: Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy (trans.) and Rema Hmoud (Arabic) Caroline Wilcox Reul (trans.) and Andra Schwarz (German) Ali Kinsella & Dzvinia Orlowsky (trans.) and Halyna Kruk (Ukrainian) Arunava Sinha (trans.) and Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (Bengali) Ellen Vayner &Continue Reading
“He stares at the reflection of the furniture in the mirror but everything is perfectly still. When he speaks to his own reflection, he hears a muffled hiss like the one made by the hands of a clock.”Continue Reading
“The censor would often read a sentence and claim that he had read it elsewhere.”Continue Reading
In the pieces included here, men seem more likely to link mirrors to a past, while for women they are part of an encircling present. Continue Reading
“I walk up “the bridge,” which is the name I’ve given to the entrance hall in my uncle’s home, because it’s higher than the other rooms.”Continue Reading
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