David Colmer
is an Australian author and translator who has settled in Amsterdam. He translates Dutch literature in a wide range of genres into English and has won several translation awards, including twice the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize, most recently for his translation of Gerritt Achterberg's "The Poet as a Cow. In 2009 he was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize and the PEN Trophy for his body of work.
In 2010 he was named the co-winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his translation of Gerbrand Bakker's first novel, The Twin, from Dutch into English.
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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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