Winners of Second Annual Bait AlGhasham DarArab Prize
In Muscat, Oman, organizers put on a two-day ceremony to celebrate winners of the second-ever Bait AlGhasham DarArab Translation Prize.
Luke Leafgren
Forthcoming October 2024: Fiction from Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, and More
This list is incomplete and limited to what we’ve been told about or discovered; if your book should be here, please let us know in the comments or at info@arablit.org. […]
3 of 10 from Arabic on Longlist for National Book Award for Translated Literature
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 — Three of the works longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature are literary works translated from Arabic. This year’s 10-book longlist was announced today. […]
Luke Leafgren Wins Banipal Prize for Translation of Najwa Barakat’s ‘Mr. N’
JANUARY 8, 2024 — Organizers announced today that the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has been awarded to Luke Leafgren for his translation of Najwa Barakat’s Mister N, which […]
Najwa Barakat’s ‘Mr. N’ a Finalist for 2023 EBRD Literature Prize
Whittling our shortlist down was tough, as it always is, but these are three truly outstanding novels, with overlapping themes – devotion and rebellion, timelessness and historical contingency, free will and political power – and utterly distinct identities. Each would be a worthy winner in its own right.
Najwa Barakat’s ‘Mister N’ Shortlisted for 2023 EBRD Literature Prize
Today, organizers announced the ten-book shortlist of translated literature for the 2023 EBRD Literature Prize.
Luke Leafgren on Translation, Najwa Barakat, and Falling Out of Love With His Translations
“I think great literature addresses perennial questions, things that we come back to time and again. Questions of identity and relationship, you know, who we are and how we relate to other people, or the world around us. This novel dives into those questions in a unique and interesting way.”
London Reads the World Book Club: ‘Mister N’ by Najwa Barakat
London Rads the World Book Clube, a small and friendly group reading world literature in English translation, will be discussing ‘Mister N’ by Lebanese author Najwa Barakat, translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.
Najwa Barakat presents ‘Mister N’ In conversation with Luke Leafgren
Greenlight Bookstore is delighted to welcome to our virtual stage luminous author and translators Najwa Barakat and Luke Leafgren to celebrate their joint achievement in the English translation of Mister N, newly published by And Other Stories.
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