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Banipal
''Banipal'' is an independent literary magazine dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Arab literature through translations in English. It was founded in London in 1998 by Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon. The magazine is published three times a year. Since its inception, it has published works and interviews of numerous Arab authors and poets, many of them translated for the first time into English. It is also co-sponsor of the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. As of December 2020, 69 issues of ''Banipal'' were published. Each issue usually focuses on a specific theme, recent issues focusing on Libyan fiction, Arab American authors, Iraqi authors, Literature in Yemen Today, Writing in Dutch, etc. The magazine has been praised both by non-Arab and Arab commentators - Gamal el-Ghitani, James Kirkup, Anton Shammas among others - for its role in diffusing Arab literature to a wider audience. The Iraqi poet, novelist and translator Fadhil Al Azzawi ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize For Arabic Literary Translation
The Banipal Prize, whose full name is the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator (or translators) for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arabic language. The prize was inaugurated in 2006 by the literary magazine ''Banipal'' which promotes the diffusion of contemporary Arabic literature through English translations and the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature. It is administered by the Society of Authors in the UK (which runs a number of similar literary translation prizes), and the prize money is sponsored by Omar Saif Ghobash and his family in memory of Ghobash's late father Saif Ghobash. As of 2009, the prize money amounted to £3000. Winners and nominees = winner 2006 * Humphrey Davies: ''Gate of the Sun'' by Elias Khoury *Hala Halim: ''Clamor of the Lake'' by Mohamed el-Bisatie *Paul Starkey: ''Stones of Bobello'' by Edwar al-Kharrat Judges: Moris Farhi, Maya Jaggi, Rog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Obank
Margaret Obank is a British publisher, noted for her contribution to the dissemination of contemporary Arabic literature in English translation. Life Obank was born in Leeds. She studied philosophy and literature at Leeds University and linguistics at Birkbeck College. She worked in teaching and in printing and publishing for many years. Along with her husband, the Iraqi author Samuel Shimon, Obank was the driving force behind the creation of ''Banipal'' magazine, a journal exclusively devoted to publishing English translations of modern Arabic literature. The first issue of ''Banipal'' was published in February 1998, and as of 2011, there have been 42 issues. Obank has also established: * the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature (which administers the Banipal Prize for literary translation), * the Banipal-Arab British Centre Library of Modern Arab Literature, and * Banipal Books. Obank is a trustee of the Arabic Booker Prize, and she is also involved with CASAW The Centre f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Shammas
Anton Shammas ( ar, أنطون شماس, he, אנטון שמאס; born 1950), is a Palestinian writer, poet and translator of Arabic, Hebrew and English. Biography Anton Shammas was one of six children born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, who moved to Fassuta in northern Palestine in 1937 to teach at the local girls' school. In 1962, the family moved to Haifa where Shammas studied in an integrated Jewish-Arab high school. In 1968, Shammas moved to Jerusalem and studied English and Arabic literature and art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shammas left Jerusalem in 1987 and now lives in the United States, where he is a professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Literary career Shammas was one of the founders of the Arabic magazine "The East" (Arabic: الشرق), which he edited from 1971 to 1976. His first poem was published in the literary supplement of Haaretz newspaper. In 1974, Shammas published his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Fagih
Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه ''’áħmad 'Ibrāhīm al-faqīh'') (December 28, 1942 – April 30, 2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and diplomat. He began writing short stories at an early age publishing them in Libyan newspapers and magazines. He gained recognition in 1965 when his first collection of short stories ''There Is No Water in the Sea'' (Arabic: البحر لا ماء فيه) won him the highest award sponsored by the Royal Commission of Fine Arts in Libya. Fagih wrote many more books in different genres, including short stories, novels, plays, essays, among them ''Gazelles'' (play), ''Evening Visitor'' (play), ''Gardens of the Night Trilogy'' (novels), ''The Valley of Ashes'' (novel), and his 12-volume epic novel ''Maps of the Soul'', which had its first three volumes translated into English and published by DARF Publishers in UK in 2014. Fagih held several diplomatic posts representing Libya, in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Beydhoun
Abbas Beydoun (born 1945) is a Lebanese poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in the village of Sur near Tyre in southern Lebanon. His father was a teacher. Beydoun studied at the Lebanese University in Beirut and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was involved in left-wing politics and spent time in jail as a young man in 1968 and 1982. Since becoming a full-time writer, he has published 18 volumes of poetry, among them ''Hujurat'', ''Li Mareedin Huwa al-Amal'', and ''Ashiqa'a Nadamuna''. His work has been translated into all the major European languages, and English translations of his poetry have appeared in several issues of ''Banipal'' magazine. Beydoun has mentioned Pierre Jean Jouve and Yannis Ritsos among his key poetic influences. He also published a novel called ''Tahlil damm'' in 2002. The English translation by Max Weiss, titled ''Blood Test'', won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award in 2008. Since 1997, Beydoun has been cultural editor of the Beiruti newspaper ''As-Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Ali El Zein
Ahmad Ali El Zein (born 1956) is a Lebanese novelist, documentary film maker and television journalist. He is best known for his trilogy of novels, ''The Edge of Oblivion'' (2007), ''Suhbat al-Tayer'' (2010) and ''Barid al-Ghouroub'' (2014). He lives between Europe and the Middle East, where he shoots ''Rawafed'', a series of documentaries on Arab intellectuals and artists broadcast on Al Arabiya News Channel Biography Ahmad Ali El Zein was born in March 1956 in the village of Akkar al-Atika, north Lebanon, to Ali El-Zein and Fatima al-Mohamad. He grew up in a rural and pastoral environment in the Lebanese northern mountains of Akkar amid thick woods. El Zein studied music and theatre at the Lebanese University, Beirut. He started as a journalist in 1978 and wrote cultural essays, articles and editorials for ''al-Nida'' newspaper, ''Annahar'', ''Assafir'', ''al-Hayat'' and ''Zahrat al-Khalij''. In 1986, he produced, wrote and presented dozens of comedies and political shows fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adunis
Ali Ahmad Said Esber (, North Levantine: ; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis ( ar, أدونيس ), is a Syrian people, Syrian poet, essayist and translator. He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world. Adonis's publications include twenty volumes of poetry and thirteen of criticism. His dozen books of translation to Arabic include the poetry of Saint-John Perse and Yves Bonnefoy, and the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (2002). His multi-volume anthology of Arabic poetry ("Dīwān ash-shi'r al-'arabī"), covering almost two millennia of verse, has been in print since its publication in 1964. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Adonis has been described as the greatest living poet of the Arab world. Biography Early life and education Born to a modest Alawites, Alawite farming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Zein
Ahmad Zein (born 1966) is a critically-acclaimed Yemeni writer and journalist, currently living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He works for the ''Al-Hayat'' newspaper. He is the author of two novels and two short story collections. The author's work has been published in Banipal magazine. His novel ''Fruit for the Crows'' was longlisted for the 2021 Arabic Booker Prize The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ( ar, الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic .... Publications * ''Correction'' (2004) * ''American Coffee'' (2007) * ''War Under the Skin'' (2010) * ''Steamer Point'' (2015) His work has been translated into English, French, and Russian. References 1968 births Living people Yemeni writers Yemeni novelists Yemeni journalists Yemeni expatriates in Saudi Arabia {{Yemen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Bouzfour
Ahmed Bouzfour ( ar, أحمد بوزفور) (born 1940s, in Taza) is a Moroccan novelist. Biography Born in the early 1940s near to Taza, Bouzfour received his primary education and learned the Qur'an in a Quranic school. He then studied at the University of Al Qaraouiyine ( ar, القرويين) in Fès, where he completed his high school studies and obtained a baccalauréat in 1966. After that, he was arrested and incarcerated during three months for his political activism. Bouzfour continued his studies in the " Faculty of Humanities and Human Science" in Mohammed V University, in Rabat, where he obtained a licence (Academic degree) of Arabic literature, then, in 1972, a master in modern Moroccan literature. His first novella, ''Yas'alounaka âni al-qatl'' (يسألونك عن القتل) was published in 1971 in Al-Alam (العلم), a Moroccan newspaper belonging to the Istiqlal Party. Works * ''Ta'abbaṭa shiâran'' (تأبط شعرا) * Three collections of novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ala Hlehel
Ala Hlehel (born 1974) is a Palestinian writer. He was born in Jesh, Galilee. He studied at the University of Haifa, and went on to work in both print and broadcast media in Haifa. Trained as a scriptwriter in Tel Aviv, he has written stage plays and scripts for both film and television. He has presented his work at prestigious theatres such as the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Schaubuhne Theatre in Berlin. Hlehel has also published novels and short stories in the humorously realistic tradition of Palestinian literature. His stories have appeared in venues such as ''Banipal'' and ''World Literature Today''. His novels include ''Au revoir Acre'' and the award-winning ''Al-Sirk''. He lives in Acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places United States * Imperial, California * Imperial, Missouri * Imp ... in northern Israel. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fadhil Al Azzawi
Fadhil Al Azzawi (Arabic: فاضل العزاوي ; born 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq) is an Iraqi writer highly respected in the Arab world, as he has published ten volumes of poetry, six novels, three books of criticism and memoir, and several translations of German literary works. He participated in Iraq's avant-garde Sixties Generation, and his early controversial work was lauded with great enthusiasm. Life and career Fadhil Al Azzawi was born in Kirkuk in 1940. As a young boy, he was fascinated by the sound and rhythm of the '' Qu'ran'' and noticed that poetry was evident in Iraqi folklore such as the tales of the Arabian Knights. In the post war period, when contemporary poetry filtered into Iraq, Al Azzaawi quickly acquainted himself with its forms. He holds a BA in English Literature from Baghdad University. He edited a number of magazines in Iraq, and founded the poetry magazine ''Shi’r 69'', which was subsequently banned. He spent three years in jail under the dictators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alawiyya Subh
Alawiya Sobh (Arabic: علوية صبح) (born 1955) is a Lebanese writer and author. Biography Born in Beirut, Sobh studied English & Arabic Literature at the Lebanese University. Upon graduation in 1978, she pursued a career in teaching. She also began publishing articles and short stories, at first in ''An-Nida'' newspaper and then in ''An-Nahar''. After a spell as cultural editor, she became editor-in-chief of ''Al-Hasnaa'', a popular Arabic women's magazine, in 1986. In the early 1990s, she became editor-in-chief of women's magazine ''Snob Al-Hasnaa’''. In 2009, Sobh served on the judging panel of the Beirut39 competition. Sobh is now dedicating her time only to writing. Works Short Stories * ''Slumber of Days'' (1986) Novels (All novels were published originally at Dar Al Adab in their native Arabic language) * 2002 - ''Maryam Al-Hakaya'' (''Maryam: Keeper of the Stories'') * 2006 - ''Dunya'' (''Life'') * 2009 - ''Ismuhu Al-Gharam'' (''It's Called Passion'') * 2020 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
