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Thu 19 March 2015
6.30pm
Meetings room & Library, Arab British Centre, 1 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE
6.30pm
Meetings room & Library, Arab British Centre, 1 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE
THE CORPSE WASHER
by Sinan Antoon
translated by the author
Winner of the 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Read the Tanjara Blogspot report on the 24 February celebration at Waterstone's Piccadilly with the author/translator Sinan Antoon
You can also read more about Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer in Farid Farid’s article on The Guardian: Sinan Antoon: an Iraqi novelist living in continuous mourning :
For all information about winning the prize go to: http://www.banipaltrust.org.uk/prize/award2014.cfm
Attending the book club is free, of course, but just to check numbers for seating, please RSVP to marco@banipal.co.uk. Many thanks.
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
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
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)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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