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 […]
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”
Maghrebi works dominated this year’s poetry longlis, and two of these have moved on to the six-book poetry shortlist.
utstanding Maghrebi collections have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.
The $1000 prize is offered annually “for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world.”
“You didn’t leave home / your home left you.”
“Beirut / I dreamed you were invaded / and awoke to the noise of destruction”
“But men / but the wind push her out on the cliff. / She watches the ocean / she would like to hurl herself into the ocean / to drink up the ocean.”
“you come from somewhere else too he says / and the stones moan with absence / the earth stops turning / once yes once I also had a country”
