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Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine.
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Radical Books Collective: Translating Palestine
Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Alice Youssef, Sonia Nimr, Sawad Hussain, Jehan Bseiso, Louis Allday, Suchitra Vijayan, Meg Arenberg and […]
#WorldKidLitMonth Giveaway: ‘Thunderbird’ Book One, by Sonia Nimr
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.
Sonia Nimr’s “Thunderbird”: Book Launch & Teacher Workshop
Join this online launch event of Sonia Nimr’s “Thunderbird”, a YA fantasy adventure featuring a young Palestinian girl who must save the world.
Launching 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.'”
Palestine Book Awards Announce 7-book Shortlist
Earlier this week, organizers announced the seven-book shortlist for this year’s Palestine Book Awards.
Pre-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.
Friday 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.
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.