Banipal Books was established in 2004 by Banipal's editor in order to strengthen and expand the work of Banipal Magazine by publishing in book form works by contemporary Arab authors. The first two titles were published in March 2005.
by Ramsey Nasr
ISBN:978-0-9549666-9-0
180pp • £7.99 • €12 • $15
Selected Poems
First English-language collection for Ramsey Nasr, the Palestinian-Dutch Poet Laureate of the Netherlands.
Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Introduction by Victor Schiferli and Foreword by Ruth Padel
“With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of global scope," writes renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker
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by Amjad Nasser
ISBN:978-0-9549666-8-3
186pp • £7.95 • $15
Selected Poems
Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poet's Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.
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by Sargon Boulus
ISBN:978-0-9549666-7-6
154pp • £7.99 • $15
Selected Poems
translated from the Arabic by the author
Knife Sharpener is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus in this collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died.
by Mahmoud Shukair
ISBN:978-0-9549666-3-8
Paperback • 124 pages • £7.99 • $15
Here is the brilliantly observed clutter and comedy of everyday lives, the lives of ordinary people pushed up against an iron occupation and fighting for survival . . .
by Issa J Boullata
ISBN:978-0-9549666-6-9
Paperback • 120 pages • £7.99 • $15
From Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. George, Kamal, Mayy, Abdullah, Nadia, William, all have to begin their lives again, learn how to deal with their memories, with their pasts . . .
by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel and Abed Ismael
ISBN:0-9549666-2-7
Paperback. 128pp. £3.95
Poems and short stories by four young Arab authors celebrating their tour of the UK this August with Banipal Live, a partnership of Banipal magazine with the British Council and The Reading Agency.
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by Tayeb Salih and 20 other North African authors
ISBN:0-9549666-1-9
Short Stories from North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia
Includes new works by authors well-known in the West – Tayeb Salih from Sudan, Mohamed Choukri from Morocco
by Jad El Hage
ISBN:978-0-9549666-4-5
Paperback • 288 pages • £9.99 • $15
Enthralling and timely saga, set in a small Lebanese village, of a young family's attempt to thwart the onset of civil war
by Samuel Shimon
ISBN:9789992142295
The new re-translated edition of Samuel Shimon's An Iraqi in Paris has been published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.
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by Ramsey Nasr
Shepherd of Solitude
by Amjad Nasser
Knife Sharpener
by Sargon Boulus
Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, and other stories
by Mahmoud Shukair
A Retired Gentleman, and other stories
by Issa J Boullata
Unbuttoning the Violin
by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel and Abed Ismael
Sardines and Oranges
by Tayeb Salih and 20 other North African authors
The Myrtle Tree
by Jad El Hage
An Iraqi In Paris
by Samuel Shimon
Latest News
06/02/2012At a celebration of literary translation on Monday 6 February at Kings Place, Khaled Mattawa will receive the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
[read more]03/02/2012
The Mosaic Rooms celebrates theartistic and poetic works of the great Syrian poet Adonis with talks and events from 3-8 February and an exhibition of Adonis's collages from 3 February until 30 March. The opening evening this Friday sees Adonis in conversation with Khaled Mattawa who is the winner of the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation Adonis: Selected Poems.
[read more]16/01/2012
Khaled Mattawa wins the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Translation Prize for Adonis:Selected Poems
[read more]12/01/2012
Chair of IPAF Judges Georges Tarabichi announces the shortlist authors of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
[read more]09/01/2012
Banipal Book Club's first book for discussion is The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader.
[read more]08/01/2012
Ibrahim Aslan, one of Egypt's best-loved authors, has died of heart failure at the age of 77.
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