Lit & Found: A Discussion with Translator Leri Price about ‘Planet of Clay’
“Researching the context of the novel helps me as a translator.”
Leri Price
Samar Yazbek and Leri Price Make 2022 Warwick Longlist for ‘Planet of Clay’
Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have made the diverse and star-studded 14-book longlist for this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
Post-Millennial MENAWA: a 2-day Interdisciplinary Conference
This conference, taking place online on June 21 and 22, examines MENAWA creative expression through innovative lenses and new critical paradigms.
MENAWA Reading Group: ‘Planet of Clay’ by Samar Yazbek
Join MENAWAPoco’s April 2022 virtual book discussion, of Samar Yazbek’s ‘Planet of Clay’ (tr. Leri Price) at 5pm UK time.
Lit & Found: Samar Yazbek Talks ‘Planet of Clay’
“So when I wrote this novel it was like Odysseus returning to Ithaca. Yes, through writing the novel I returned to myself, and I think I am better as a result.”
2021 National Book Awards Finalists Reading
Join the 2021 National Book Award Finalists Reading with Samar Yazbek and Leri Price (“Planet of Clay”).
Samar Yazbek, Translator Leri Price Shortlisted for National Book Award for ‘Planet of Clay’
Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have made the five-book shortlist of the 2021 National Book Award in the “Translated Literature” category.
Samar Yazbek’s ‘Planet of Clay,’ tr. Leri Price, Longlisted for National Book Award
Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have been longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award in the “Translated Literature” category.
Announcing: Judges for the 2021 ArabLit Story Prize, Submission Dates
The 2021 ArabLit Story Prize will open to submissions on April 1, 2021.