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9 February 2023
6.00pm UK time GMT
Online with Banipal Trust and co-hosted by Arts Canteen
6.00pm UK time GMT
Online with Banipal Trust and co-hosted by Arts Canteen
Make a date for Thursday 9 February 2023, 6pm GMT
The Banipal Trust for Arab Literature’s celebration of the winners of the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation takes place the day after the Society of Authors' Award Ceremony for all the translation prizes they administer (which takes place on 8 February).
With both authors and one of. the joint winners being unable to travel to London, an online event is the answer.
Participating in the 1-hour evening event will be two of the judges, chair Charis Olszok and Katherine Halls, Robin Moger – translator of Slipping – and author Mohamed Kheir, Hugh Davies – brother of the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun – and author Hamdi Abu Golayyel. Moderated by Banipal Trust chair Prof Paul Starkey.
ALL WELCOME to this free event wherever you are in the world.
Register to attend with Art's Canteen's Eventbrite link.
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)
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Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
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