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Winners of Second Annual Bait AlGhasham DarArab Prize
In Muscat, Oman, organizers put on a two-day ceremony to celebrate winners of the second-ever Bait AlGhasham DarArab Translation Prize. The prize, which honors winners in two categories, presented the award in its translation category to American translator Luke Leafgren, who received the top honor for his English translation of الباغ by Bushra Khalfan, which he translated as The…
Forthcoming October 2024: Fiction from Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, and More
This list is incomplete and limited to what we’ve been told about or discovered; if your book should be here, please let us know in the comments or at [email protected]. No One Knows Their Blood Type, by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Hazem Jamjoum (Cleveland State University Poetry Center: October 1, 2024) From the publisher: No One Knows Their Blood Type is a novel of identity, belonging,…
3 of 10 from Arabic on Longlist for National Book Award for Translated Literature
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 — Three of the works longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature are literary works translated from Arabic. This year’s 10-book longlist was announced today. Leri Price is now a frequent National Book Award contender: This year, she’s on the longlist for her translation of Samar Yazbek’s Where the Wind Calls Home. She and Yazbek were also shortlisted in…
THE TALE OF A WALL
Palestinian women demonstrate on January 3, 1988 in El-Ram north Jerusalem where earlier in the day a young Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli riot police. The First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation erupted in the Jabalia refugee camp and quickly spread throughout Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Nasser Abu Srour is one of thousands of Palestinian…
Luke Leafgren Wins Banipal Prize for Translation of Najwa Barakat's 'Mr. N'
JANUARY 8, 2024 — Organizers announced today that the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has been awarded to Luke Leafgren for his translation of Najwa Barakat’s Mister N, which was also shortlisted for the EBRD Prize last year. The awards ceremony is set to take place in London on February 7 of this year. The judges — Ros Schwartz, Tony Calderbank, Sarah Enany, and…
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Najwa Barakat's 'Mr. N' a Finalist for 2023 EBRD Literature Prize
APRIL 27, 2023 — Najwa Barakat’s Mr. N., translated by Luke Leafgren, haas made the three-book list of finalistst for the 2023 EBRD Literature Prize. Judges of the prize — which aims to acknowledge and promote “cultural diversity and the abundance of literary expression in countries from central and eastern Europe to Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the southern and eastern Mediterranean —…
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Najwa Barakat's 'Mister N' Shortlisted for 2023 EBRD Literature Prize
MARCH 16, 2023 — Today, organizers announced the ten-book shortlist of translated literature for the 2023 EBRD Literature Prize. This six-year-old literary prize, established by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, awards authors from countries where the EBRD operates, as well as their English translators. The EBRD countries range from “central and eastern Europe to Central…
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Luke Leafgren Wins 2018 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Luke Leafgren Wins 2018 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Organizers announced today that they had awarded the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation to Luke Leafgren for “a seamless rendering of an outstanding work of fiction”:
The prize went to Leafgren for his translation of Muhsin al-Rami’s The President’s Gardens, for which he wins £3,000. The other three shortlisted translators were: Khaled Mattawa (for translating Adonis’…
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