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.
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Samar Yazbek: Escapism for Survival @edbookfest
Leading Syrian author Samar Yazbek joins the Edinburgh International Book Festival live from France to discuss the vital role of the imagination in the struggle for survival.
World Editions to Publish Samar Yazbek’s ‘Blue Pen’ in 2021
The book is scheduled for English publication in Fall 2021.
Samar Yazbek’s ‘La Marcheuse’ Makes Prix Femina Longlist
Yazbek’s La Marcheuse follows Rima, a girl from Damascus who cannot stop walking.
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.”
Samar 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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