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Peter Kalu
Peter Kalu is a writer and editor, based in Manchester, UK. He has nine published novels, ranging from science fiction to romantic comedy, and a number of radio and theatre plays. He was a translator of commercial French into English before joining the new writing development agency Commonword/ Cultureword, becoming their Artistic Director in 2008, and convenor of the UK National Black Writers Conference every two years.
He was a judge on the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. See
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Banipal 63 - The 100 Best Arabic Novels (2018)
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 The Mariner
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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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Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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