All right, back to my real job for a minute: The longlist for the “Best Translated Book Award” is out, and one translation from the Arabic has made the 25-title cut. It’s Adania Shibli’s Touch, rendered into lovely English prose by Paula Haydar.
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On the Anniversary of Sabra and Shatila
There are several great works of literature that address the massacre (publication dates are for English-language translations):
I’m Not to Talk About Adania Shibli’s /Touch/
I have begun to despair of my review of Adania Shibli’s lovely Touch ever seeing daylight. (Yes, yes, it will…next issue….) And, as one is not supposed to write about a book before one’s review has seen daylight, I can’t say much about it here.
Tolstoy and Shakespeare Are Palestinians
I’m a bit late in finding it, but Claire Falcon on FREE THE BLOG apparently wrote about Adania Shibli and Ala Hlehel’s Beirut39 reading in London last month. There were the sorts of questions and answers to be expected (Don’t… Read More ›
