Sunday Submissions: AKO Caine Prize for African Writing
2023-01-15
Submissions for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing (for short stories) are open until the 26th January. Continue Reading
Published in 2022: Arabic Literature in Translation
2022-12-27
This year, we have lists of literary works translated from Arabic to English, to German, to Portuguese, and to Malayalam. Continue Reading
Sunday Submissions: Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations Anthology 2024
2022-12-16
Dallas-based non-profit publishing house Deep Vellum is accepting nominations for the inaugural edition of an exciting new anthology initiative: The Best Literary Translations 2024. Continue Reading
Author Mohamed Kheir on Surreal Coincidences and the Mysteries of Translation
2022-10-26
” One day, I read Lorca’s wonderful poem “Elegy to a Bullfighter,” translated into Arabic by a great Arab poet. I was agitated by the translation, not because I knew Spanish — I don’t know Spanish — but because I memorized the poem from another translation, which had been done by a man who was neither a poet nor a translator. “Continue Reading
Lit & Found: Sawad Hussain on Resources for Editing Translations
2022-07-29
For the last post of her residency at the British Centre for Literary Translation, Arabic-English translator Sawad Hussain shares some of the resources she uses when editing translations.Continue Reading
Mona Kareem on Translation: ‘Embrace Your Invisibility As a Superpower’
2022-07-21
“Embrace your invisibility as a superpower.” Continue Reading
Race and Responsibility in Translation
2022-07-15
Join Kaiama Glover and Barbara Ofosu-Somuah as they discuss how translation functions as a mode of racialised narrative and therefore demands an ethics of care that implicates the writer, the translator, the publisher, and even the audience.Continue Reading
Coming in June: Historical Fiction & Animal Stories
2022-06-01
Coming in June, three new books in translation by Egyptian authors.Continue Reading
BCLT Research Seminar – Round Table: Arabic Discourse on Translation
2022-05-06
BCLT Translator in Residence Sawad Hussain is joined by editors Tarek Shamma and Myriam Salama-Carr for a round-table discussion to celebrate the recent publication of their Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation (Routledge, 2022).Continue Reading
