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Jonathan Wright (translator)
Jonathan Wright is a British journalist and literary translator. Biography Wright was born in Andover, Hampshire, and spent his childhood in Canada, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Germany. He attended Packwood Haugh School from 1966 to 1967 and Shrewsbury School from 1967 to 1971. He studied Arabic, Turkish and Islamic civilisation at St John's College, Oxford. He joined Reuters news agency in 1980 as a correspondent, and has been based in the Middle East for most of the last three decades. He has served as Reuters' Cairo bureau chief, and he has lived and worked throughout the region, including in Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Tunisia and the Persian Gulf, Persian Gulf region. From 1997 to 2003, he was based in Washington, DC, covering US foreign policy for Reuters. For two years until the fall of 2011 Wright was editor of the ''Arab Media & Society Journal'', published by the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at the American University in Cairo. Translations Kidnapping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andover, Hampshire
Andover ( ) is a town in the English county of Hampshire. The town is on the River Anton, a major tributary of the Test, and is situated alongside the major A303 trunk road at the eastern end of Salisbury Plain, west of the town of Basingstoke, both major rail stops. It is NNW of the city of Winchester, north of the city of Southampton and WSW of London. Andover is twinned with the towns of Redon in France, Goch in Germany, and Andover, Massachusetts in the United States. History Early history Andover's name is recorded in Old English in 955 as ''Andeferas'', and is thought to be of Celtic origin: compare Welsh ''onn dwfr'' = "ash (tree) water". The first mention in history is in 950 when King Edred is recorded as having built a royal hunting lodge there. In 962 King Edgar called a meeting of the Saxon 'parliament' (the Witenagemot) at his hunting lodge near Andover. Of more importance was the baptism, in 994, of a Viking king named Olaf (allied with the Danish king ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere ( ar, عزالدين شكري فشير) (born 1966 in Kuwait City) is an Egyptian novelist, diplomat and academic. Early life and career Ezzedine was born to Egyptian parents working in Kuwait. At the age of two, he returned to Egypt with his mother and siblings while his father stayed back in Kuwait to support the family. Fishere grew up in Mansura, a quiet town by the Nile. Bright at school, he graduated from ''Mansoura Secondary School'' in Dakahlia at the age of 16 and was among the top ten students in the country (1983). In 1987, he graduated from the political science department at Cairo University, and joined Al-Ahram Centre for Political Studies. Two years later, he had completed his military service and joined the Foreign Service. In 1992, he obtained an International Diploma in Administration from École Nationale d'Administration in Paris, then a Masters in International Relations in 1995 from the University of Ottawa, and finally a PhD in poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon ( ar, سنان أنطون), is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator. He has been described as "one of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world." He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Life and career Antoon was born in 1967 in Baghdad. He received his B.A. in English with distinction from the University of Baghdad in 1990 with minors in Arabic and Translation. He left Iraq in 1991 after the onset of the Gulf War and moved to the United States. He completed an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University in 1995. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Arabic and Islamic Studies. His doctoral dissertation was the first study on the 10th century poet, Ibn al-Hajjaj and the genre of poetry he pioneered (). "He was one of a coterie of dissident diasporic Iraqi intellectuals who opposed the 2003 US occupation of his homeland that led to the current post-colonial qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Maarouf
Mazen Marrouf (Arabic: مازن معروف) is a Palestinian–Icelandic writer, translator, journalist and poet, born in 1978. He has more than five publications, and translated many novels from Icelandic into Arabic including the novels of several Icelandic writers. In 2019, his short story "Jokes for the gunmen" was long-listed the Man Booker International Prize. Some of his poetry works and novels have been translated into many languages including English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Education and career Mazen Maarouf was born in Beirut to a Palestinian family in 1978. He moved with his family to Tal Al-Zaatar at the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon, and is currently residing in Iceland. He studied at the Lebanese University and obtained a bachelor's degree from the college of Science in Chemistry. He worked as a teacher of chemistry and physics for several years before he shifted his career to literary field and journalism in 2001. Maarouf began his literary career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Saadawi
Ahmed Saadawi (born 1973, ar, أحمد سعداوي) is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary film maker. He won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for ''Frankenstein in Baghdad''. He lives and works in Baghdad. Awards and honours *2010 Beirut39 project, one of 39 chosen participants *2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction 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 ..., winner for ''Frankenstein in Baghdad'' *2017 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire, Foreign-language novel winner for ''Frankenstein in Baghdad'' Bibliography *2000 ''Anniversary of Bad Songs'' (poetry) *2004 ''The Beautiful Country'' (novel) *2008 ''Indeed He Dreams or Plays or Dies'' (novel) *2013 ''Frankenstein in Baghdad'' (novel) References 20th-century Iraqi novelists Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankenstein In Baghdad
''Frankenstein in Baghdad'' ( ar, فرانكشتاين في بغداد) is an Arabic novel written by the Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi. It won the IPAF award (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) for 2014. The novel was translated into English by Jonathan Wright. The novel is a wartime spin on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.'' Since 2018 the book is also available as an audiobook aKitabsawti.com Plot In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a junk-dealer named Hadi al-Attag collects the scattered body parts of bomb victims with the intention of giving them a proper burial. Al-Attag first stitches the body parts together to create a single body, calling it "Whatsitsname", but when he leaves the body alone, the spirit of another bomb victim enters the corpse and brings it to life. Whatsitsname starts out on a mission of vengeance, killing those he considers responsible for the deaths of the bomb victims, but his actions spin out o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd ( ar, نصر حامد أبو زيد, ; also Abu Zaid or Abu Zeid; July 10, 1943 – July 5, 2010) was an Egyptian Quranic thinker, author, academic and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam. He is famous for his project of a humanistic Quranic hermeneutics, which "challenged mainstream views" on the Quran, sparking "controversy and debate." While not denying that the Quran was of divine origin, Zayd argued that it was a "cultural product" that had to be read in the context of the language and culture of seventh century Arabs, and could be interpreted in more than one way. He also criticized the use of religion to exert political power. In 1995 an Egyptian Sharia court declared him an apostate, this led to threats of death and his fleeing Egypt several weeks later. He later quietly returned to Egypt where he died. Abu Zayd has been referred to as among "the big names" of the post-1967 Arab intellectual tradition. Early life Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammour Ziada
Hammour Ziada ( ar, حمور زيادة, born 1979) is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. Before, he had been writing for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudan. Two of his novels were selected for Arabic literary awards and appeared in English translations. Life and career In Sudan, Ziada worked for national newspapers, including ''Al-Mustaqilla'', ''Ajras al-Horriya'', and ''Al-Jarida''. At ''Al-Akhbar,'' he served as the culture editor. Ziada has published several volumes of fiction in Arabic, and is best known for his second novel ''Shawq al-darwīsh (The Longing of the Dervish''), which won the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Prize in Egypt in 2014 and was also nominated for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This novel, that takes place during the Mahdist state, and several of his stories have appeared in English translation, including the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Eissa
Ibrahim Eissa ( ar, إبراهيم عيسى) (born 9 November 1965) is an Egyptian journalist and TV personality best known for co-founding the popular Egyptian weekly '' Al-Dustour''. He is currently editor-in-chief of '' Al Tahrir'', which he co-founded in July 2011. Early life and education Ibrahim Eissa was born in November 1965 in Quesna in the Monufia Governorate in Egypt. His father was an Arabic teacher. At 11 years old, he published his first magazine, ''Al Haqiqa'', which he arranged to print himself and distributed by hand to local schools and newsstands. When he was 17, during his first year at the Cairo University School of Journalism, Eissa began working for the magazine ''Rose al-Yūsuf'', becoming its youngest editorial secretary. Although a state-run magazine, it was reputed for its openness to normally taboo topics as well as its leftist and nationalist opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Gamaa Islamiyya. However, when Eissa refused to support the 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa'd Makkawi
Sa’ad Makkawi (1916–1985) was an Egyptian writer.Crosshatching in global culture : a dictionary of modern Arab writers : an updated English version of R.B. Campbell's "Contemporary Arab Writers" / edited by John J. Donohue and Leslie Tramontini. He was born in Dalatun, Menoufia. As a young man, he travelled to France to study medicine but he returned without a degree. He is best known for his novel ''The Sleepwalkers'' (''Al-Sayirun Niyaman'') which was chosen by the Arab Writers Union The Arab Writers Union (ar.: اتحاد الكتاب العرب) is an association of Arab writers, founded in 1969, in Damascus, Syria, at the initiative of a group of Arab writers including Syrian novelist Hanna Mina. In 2008, the union was mov ... as one of the 100 greatest Arabic novels. The novel has been translated by Jonathan Wright. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Makkawi, Saad Egyptian novelists 1916 births 1985 deaths 20th-century novelists Egyptian expatriates in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saud Alsanousi
Saud Alsanousi ( ar, سعود السنعوسي, born 27 May 1981) is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist. His debut novel ''The Prisoner of Mirrors'' (2010) won the Leila Othman Prize. In 2011, his short story ''The Bonsai and the Old Man'' won a competition organized by '' Al-Arabi'' magazine and BBC Arabic. His novel ''The Bamboo Stalk'', written from the perspective of a boy of mixed Kuwaiti-Filipino parentage about his struggle to find a place in either country, won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013). Saud Alsanousi lives in Kuwait and writes for the ''Al-Qabas ''Al-Qabas'' ( ar, القبس) (English language, English: ''the Firebrand'' or ''the Starbrand'') is an Arabic daily Kuwaiti newspaper and tabloid published by Dar Al Qabas Press Printing Publishing and Distribution Company in Kuwait City. Hi ...'' newspaper. Publications * Prisoner of Mirrors (2010) * The Bonsai And The Old Man (2011) * The Bamboo Stalk (2012) * Grandma Hessa's Mice (2015) * ''Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
