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 Prize
‘Eddo’s Souls’: A Novel of Motherhood and Fragmentation in Sudan and South Sudan
"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."
Stella Gaitano’s ‘Eddo’s Souls,’ ‘Book of Ramallah’ Win PEN Translates Awards
For the first time, one of the "PEN Translates" awards will go to a South Sudanese novel.
Stella Gaitano, Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook, and Sudanese Uprisings
“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.”
Special for #WiTMonth: Stella Gaitano’s ‘Withered Flowers’
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.
Pub Day for ‘ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings’
Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.
3 Collections for ‘Sudan / South Sudan Literature Week’
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'.