“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.”
Read moreSamar 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.
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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.
Read moreWorld Editions to Publish Samar Yazbek’s ‘Blue Pen’ in 2021
The book is scheduled for English publication in Fall 2021.
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Samar Yazbek’s ‘La Marcheuse’ Makes Prix Femina Longlist
Yazbek’s La Marcheuse follows Rima, a girl from Damascus who cannot stop walking.
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Translate This! Samar Yazbek’s ’19 Women’
“We had no experience of dealing with something like this. The smell from the hospital was like the stench of rotten eggs. We gave people the standard facemasks but it did no good.”
Read moreSamar Yazbek, ‘A Sudden Visitor in This Place’
Yesterday, Jadaliyya published a prose work by Yazbek that reflects events in Syria through the prism of a woman writer. The work, titled “Waiting for Death: I Will Not Carry Flowers to my Grave,” is not assigned a genre, but feels in parts like a prose poem, elsewhere an essay or a memoir fragment.
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