SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 — The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) today announced the longlists for the 2023 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose. Although there were no Arab […]
It’s publication week for Traces of Enayat. Read an excerpt from the book, an excerpt from Enayat al-Zayyat’s Love & Silence, and, here, a conversation with the author. By Tugrul Mende In Iman […]
It’s publication day for the English edition of Iman Mersal’s award-winning Traces of Enayat, translated by Robin Moger and published by And Other Stories. The genre-encompassing book, which was both […]
And Other Stories has released the cover of Iman Mersal’s groundbreaking Traces of Enayat, set for release in Robin Moger’s translation this August 3.
Organizers of the Griffin Poetry Prize — one of the world’s biggest international poetry prizes — have announced this year’s ten-book longlist. Among them was Egyptian poet Iman Mersal’s The Threshold, beautifully translated by Robyn Creswell.
This month, we can look forward to new non-fiction, poetry, and novels in translation.
Four Way Review, an online literary journal from the independent literary publisher Four Way Books, has published three poems by Iman Mersal in Robyn Creswell’s translation and a talk between Creswell and poet-translator Sara Elkamel.
The collection is coming mid-October and can be pre-ordered on the MacMillan website.
This conversation is about two feminist texts, “How to Mend: Motherhood and its Ghosts” by Iman Mersal and “Experiments in Imagining Otherwise” by Lola Olufemi, both of which explore care, intimacy and politics.
