"This year's judging chair will be Paul Starkey, who was a judge on the inaugural committee for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a prolific translator, and a previous winner of the Banipal translation prize."
The 20 Entries for This Year’s Banipal Translation Prize
The winner of the 2018 prize is set to be announced late January 2019, with an awards ceremony to be held in late February or early March 2019.
2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize to Translator of ‘Sultan’s Seal’; ‘Land of No Rain’ Commended
"This text confronts the translator with extraordinary challenges."
