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Leri Price
Leri Price graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First Class Honours in Arabic. She has translated three novels of the Syrian author Khaled Khalifa. The Arabic original of the first one, In Praise of Hatred, had been shortlisted for the inaugural 2008 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
The Arabic original of the second novel, No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, was awarded the 2013 Naguib Medal for Literature and was shortlisted for the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Leri Price's translation of the novel was shortlisted for the US 2017 National Translation Awards (NTA), in the prose category, and shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. It was also listed in "Best Books of 2016: Fiction in Translation" by the Financial Times.
Her translation of Death is Hard Work (Faber & Faber 2019), won the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and was longlisted for the 2019 US National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Leri Price's latest translation, Planet of Clay by Syrian author Samar Yazbek, came out with World Editions in May 2021, and has been longlisted for the 2021 US National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Banipal 25 published an excerpt from Salsal (Clay), translated by Christina Phillips, in Autumn 2005, shortly after the book was published by Arab Scientific Publishers.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem (Spring 2021)
Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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