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.’
“But I didn’t decide to avoid setting The White Line of Night in Kuwait so that I could write freely and refer to anyone or anything without getting into trouble. Censorship is not exclusive to Kuwait; it is a global issue and it still exists in reality and practice even in the countries that theoretically nullified it.”
Judging chair for the 2022 International Prize of Arabic Fiction, Choukri al-Mabkhout, today announced the prize’s six shortlisted novels for this year. For the first time, the shortlist included novels written by authors from the UAE and Oman.
