Jordanian poet and novelist Jalal Barjas has won the 14th International Prize for Arabic Fiction with his novel Notebooks of the Bookseller (The Arabic Institute for Research & Publishing).
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The author, an aeronautical engineer, was longlisted in 2019 for 'Women of the Five Senses.' He wins for 'Notebooks of the Bookseller.' The post Jordan’s Jalal Barjas Wins the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The author, an aeronautical engineer, was longlisted in 2019 for 'Women of the Five Senses.' He wins for 'Notebooks of the Bookseller.' The post Jordan’s Jalal Barjas Wins the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
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Questions of fidelity to a text were among topics discussed by Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, and Hamed Al Ghaithi. The post At Abu Dhabi International Book Fair: ‘The Art of Translation’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.