Anthony Calderbank
studied Arabic and Persian at Manchester University and taught Arabic in Cairo and at Salford University, UK.
He has translated novels by Miral el-Tahawy (The Tent and Blue Aubergine), and Youssef al-Mohaimeed (Traps of Scent, which was excerpted first in Banipal, was published in full by AUC Press, and later by Penguin USA as Wolves of the Crescent Moon), also Sonallah Ibrahim’s Zaat, Naguib Mahfouz’s early novel Rhapodis of Nubia, plus a collection of Nubian short stories, Vintage Nights of Musk [Layali Al Misk Al Ateeqa] by Haggag Hassan Addoul, and a number of Palestinian short stories published in a collection edited by Nur and Abdel Wahhab El Messiri. All were first published by AUC Press.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal No 34 published April 2009
Banipal No 36 Literature in Yemen Today
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The winner of the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is Samah Selim for her translation of The Collar and the Bracelet by the late Yahya Taher Abdullah.
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January 2010 – an innovative and intensive workshop for Arabic to English and English to Arabic literary translation – fiction and plays
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[read more]16/11/2009
The 16 titles and authors on the Long List of the 2009-2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction were announced in Cairo today . . .
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