Adabiyat’s virtual book club will be reading Ahmed Taibaoui’s The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody, translated by Jonathan Wright in March 2023. Read an extract here: https://tinyurl.com/2pnp4vr5 It is a raw, […]
Ahmed Taibaoui’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning novel The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody was published this week by Hoopoe Fiction, in translation by Jonathan Wright.
Bristol Translates Literary Translation Summer School, taking place July 4-8, 2022, is open for application.
Join this conversation featuring author Hassan Blasim and translator Jonathan Wright, wich is part of NDU’s Literatures of Annihilation series.
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 […]
Jonathan Wright will draw on his experience as a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction to examine and critique the assumptions that underpin a corpus of literature written in Modern Standard Arabic.
“They came at four o’clock in the morning and I was too sleepy to get out of the way in time.”
Herodotus had been around since 400 BC.
During the Benghazi bombings, he made a run for it.
“What I mean by this is only in English could I fully inhabit and write from the perspective of a woman. I have no idea why, but I’m sure it’s nothing to do with the nature of English itself as a language.”
