To celebrate World Kid Lit Month, we are giving away copies of the first book in Palestinian novelist Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Thunderbird trilogy, now available in translation from University of Texas Press.
Read moreLaunching the FOLK Issue: The Ordinary and Extraordinary That ‘Refuse to Be Erased’
“This issue, our last of the year, is a celebration of stories and poetry that are oral, anti-professional, transgressive, strange, and fantastical. In it, the ordinary and extraordinary people at the margins, as Alaa Murad writes, ‘refuse to be erased.'”
Read morePalestine Book Awards Announce 7-book Shortlist
Earlier this week, organizers announced the seven-book shortlist for this year’s Palestine Book Awards.
Read morePre-launch Giveaway: Sonia Nimr’s ‘Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands’
Apologies, these will be mailed out from Interlink and can go to USA addresses only. However, it need not be your address; feel free to enter and gift the book to someone in the US.
Read moreFriday Finds: YA in Translation by Taghreed Najjar, Djamila Morani, and Sonia Nimr
Words Without Borders has posted a new special issue this kid-lit-heavy month, “Time-Travelers, Fisherwomen, and Sleuths: Arabic Young Adult Literature,” curated by translator Elisabeth Jaquette.
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Translate This! 21 Women You Want to Read in English
For Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), we have assembled 21 women from 12 countries who have no book-length work in English, where, if they did, it would improve your day.
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