Stella Gaitano’s Edo’s Souls, forthcoming from Dedalus Books this year, will feature cover art by Khartoum-based Sudanese visual artist Yasmeen Abdullah. Continue Reading
Nine vibrant, world-stitching (and un-stitching) short stories by Sudanese and South Sudanese women in English translation.Continue Reading
This first Monday of Women in Translation Month, Sawad Hussain and Stella Gaitano share this excerpt from her novel The Souls of Eddo, winner of a PEN Translates PrizeContinue Reading
“The novel begins across a rural context, in a small impoverished village full of mystery, rituals, and superstition, and it ends in a jam-packed city with all its complications.”Continue Reading
For the first time, one of the “PEN Translates” awards will go to a South Sudanese novel.Continue Reading
“I started to record it so as not to forget. Not only for me but for anyone who is innocent and has been imprisoned under false pretenses. Just to remember what can happen.”Continue Reading
Anyone who becomes a Patreon subscriber to ALQ during the month of August also gets a copy of Stella Gaitano’s limited-edition, almost-impossible-to-acquire Withered Flowers, in Arabic or English, while supplies last. Continue Reading
Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.Continue Reading
The writers featured include Ibrahim Ishaq (in ‘Literary Sudans’), Leila Aboulela, Mansour El Souwaim (‘Beirut 39’), Mamoun Eltlib (‘Book of Khartoum’), Stella Gaitano (‘ArabLit Quarterly’, ‘Banipal 55’), and others, including Griselda El Tayib and her recently launched ‘Regional Folk Costumes of the Sudan’.Continue Reading
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