In Conversation with Salim Barakat
“Barakat is forthright, crude, and uncensored in his writings, and he was the same in his responses to my questions. He paints a prophetic picture, neither for himself nor for anyone else.”
Salim Barakat
Wilding Language: Salim Barakat Between a Kurdish Heart and an Arabic Voice
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy discuss the idea of untranslatability (and perhaps, by extension, unreadability) and the work Salim Barakat, and why, if a translation were complete and perfect, this might mean that the work was born dead.
Two Titles from Arabic Make 2022 Shortlist of Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation
“The translation of poetry is poetry stretched to its very limits.”
Swedish Translator: How Is It Possible Salim Barakat’s Books Haven’t Been Translated Into English?
“It’s truly remarkable that there is no full-length translation into English of what is to my mind the most original novelist writing in Arabic today. “