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Past Events
Thu 18 February 2016
6.30 p.m.-9.00 p.m.
Waterstone's Piccadilly, 203/206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HD
6.30 p.m.-9.00 p.m.
Waterstone's Piccadilly, 203/206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HD
In conversation with Gaby Wood
PAUL STARKEY & YOUSSEF RAKHA
Join us in opening up the secrets of
The Book of the Sultan's Seal:
Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars
"Published at the height of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal is one of the most adventurous and innovative novels to have appeared in Arabic in recent years and its English version is a tour de force of translation . . . "
"Via a series of erratic (and on occasion, erotic) journeys through his Cairo, which is at once ancient and modern, the novel's protagonist Mustafa Çorbaci wrestles with the dilemmas of identity which beset this journalist, intellectual and aspiring artist."
Celebrate the power of literary translation with Gaby Wood,
winning translator Paul Starkey and his author Youssef Rakha
ALL WELCOME
The evening will be introduced by Paul Blezard
and include readings from the novel, Q&A, and a book signing.
Copies of The Book of the Sultan's Seal will be on sale
A reception will open the evening at 6.30pm
This is a free event, but please reserve your seat by emailing piccadilly@waterstones.com
• To link to Waterstone's webpage for the event, click here
• For all information on the results of the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation click here
• For general information about the prize, click here
• For more on the winner Paul Starkey, click here and here
• For more on the author Youssef Rakha, click here, and see his own website here
The evening is hosted by the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature and Waterstone's Piccadilly
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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