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Two Maghrebi Poetry Collections, 'Impostures' Shortlisted for 2021 National Translation Awards

Two Maghrebi Poetry Collections, ‘Impostures’ Shortlisted for 2021 National Translation Awards

On International Translation Day (September 30), the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the shortlist for their 2021 awards in poetry and prose: The awards, now in their twenty-third year, are the “only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished…

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Rebuilding that Old Tower of Babel, A Talk with Michael Cooperson

Rebuilding that Old Tower of Babel, A Talk with Michael Cooperson

Today, journalist and translator AJ Naddaff launches his series of talks with translators of premodern Arabic literature, which he tongue-in-cheek calls “Untranslateable”: The bi-monthly series will appear here and at his substack, where you can subscribe. By AJ Naddaff According to the Moroccan literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito, the ancients “unconsciously endeavored to make their works…

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Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards

Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards

Three outstanding Maghrebi collections, in English translation, have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry: They are Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Agadir, translated from French by Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak; Samira Negroughe’s The Olive Trees’ Jazz and Other Poems, translated from French by Marilyn Hacker; and the anthology Poetic Justice: An Anthology of…

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[boozybookworms]

#readingideas have you read the tales of Abu Zayd? What will someone do during #roughtimes #impostures #booklovers #booktranslation #boozybookworms https://www.instagram.com/p/CJb9E4SHAr-/?igshid=1vckgihuhgxd8

[j-august]

There are few of the impostures we commit more amusing, than that which we habitually practise upon ourselves in assigning the highest moral motives for doing what pleases us best.

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, The Tenants of Malory

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George Washington Quote Guard impostures pretended

George Washington Quote Guard impostures pretended “ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. — George Washington George Washington [ajax_load_more container_type=”div” css_classes=”load-more-posts” seo=”true” post_type=”post” post_format=”quote” pause=”true” scroll_distance=”-850″ transition=”masonry” progress_bar=”true” progress_bar_color=”5817C7″ button_label=”More Quotes”…

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[feministe-radicale-francaise]

Le féminisme moderne est tellement libéral et édulcoré qu’il prône la légalisation de la prostitution et la mise en valeur de la pornographie ainsi que du sadomasochisme comme des pratiques normales, saines et auto-puissantes alors que tous ces concepts sont directement visés par le féminisme d’origine. Notre mouvement ne se laissera pas manger vivant par un patriarcat déguisé en pseudo-féminisme criant sur tous les toits que la déshumanisation des femmes nous rendrait plus fortes.

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Cats & Dogs des Bois Noirs remixé par The Imposture.