Golan Haji, translated by @robinmoger.bsky.social: “The next morning, after we saluted the flag and chanted party slogans on the basketball court, the school principal thrashed his cane to splinters over my bloodied, outstretched palms.”
www.equator.org/articles/ash...
In 1960, 283 children died when a theater in northern Syria went up in flames. Kurdish poet Golan Haji recalls the disaster: “Even though it happened many years before I was born, consigned to police files marked ‘no perpetrator’, we all knew of the fire.” www.equator.org/articles/ash...
this reminds me I should also mention @twolinespress.bsky.social in my list of great translation houses. if you only read Two Lines publications for a year you'd emerge having expanded your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previously have guessed at
this includes translations, by the way
TODAY is Pub Day for Batool Abu Akleen's 48KG, tr. various, and the poetry pamphlet she edited & translated for @mptmagazine.bsky.social, SEA SHELLS.
Order 48Kg from Tenement Press: tenementpress.com/Batool-Abu-A...
And read SEA SHELLS free online:
modernpoetryintranslation.com/sea-shells-a...
I think you really did! V generous about it
*Indebted*: a set of texts by and about Dhul Rumma and a poem by Golan Haji, dedicated to Golan, in the Debt-themed Monsoon edition of the great Almost Island
www.almostisland.com/monsoon-2025...
I enjoyed this a lot!
And our ridiculous but informative show is LIVE on Twitch for our weekly, uh, live recording!
It's a Reading Rangers night, and we're talking about Mohamed Kheir's Sleep Phase (trans. Robin Moger) via @twolinespress.bsky.social.
Join us!
twitch.tv/alphabetst...
Submissions are open! We are looking for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico collection. Find out more here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
فصل من رواية نائل الجديدة...
US edition of Iman's Motherhood & It's Ghosts out this month
An extract from Mohamed's novel Sleep Phase, out next month from the great @twolinespress.bsky.social
كأنَّ ديار الحي بالزُّرقِ خِلقةٌ / من الأرض أو مكتوبةٌ بمِدادِ
ذو الرمة
Lovely news. The Republic of Consciousness Prize is sending subscribers copies of A Horse at the Door (Tenement Press), my translations of selected poems by Wadih Saadeh, as its Book of the Month for March.
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“Perhaps to write and read is to flow into our own chronic genre. And each fragment is a fugitive rebirth from the last.”: A Correspondence with Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng — Alex Tan
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/18/p...
Alex Tan on Iman Mersal's Traces of Enayat
www.full-stop.net/2025/02/13/f...
"The enamoured sees the face of the beloved in all things, blind to all else, unable even to see them. God’s absence is what fills creation; His absence is the only possible way in which He may be present in a world that brims with injustice." – Golan Haji, tr. @robinmoger.bsky.social
Thanks to Alex Tan for this beautifully composed review of A Horse at the Door that dobles as a fantastic primer for the poetry of Wadih Saadeh
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The finalists for the 2024 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize are The Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea by Elias Khoury, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies (Archipelago), Fiction, Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions), Fiction, A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper (Penguin Classics), Nonfiction, Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter), Fiction, O by Judith Kiros, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson (World Poetry), Poetry, and Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal, translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger (Transit), Nonfiction.
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
“None of this ever happened to Enayat. Come. Tonight we celebrate her memory."
@andotherstories.bsky.social @robinmoger.bsky.social
Haytham El Wardany's beautiful essay on writing and its purposes, [To the dead/To those yet unborn], is now up at Tenement Press's Rehearsals page:
tenementpress.com/To-the-Dead
Congratulations, Iman Mersal and Robin Moger! TRACES OF ENAYAT is longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Barrios Book in Translation Prize 💐💐💐
www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/19/2...
Out now from Tenement Press, A Horse at the Door, a selection of poems by Wadih Saadeh, available direct from Tenement, or from the Asterism bookstore:
tenementpress.com/Wadih-Saadeh
asterismbooks.com/product/a-horse-at-the-door-a-chronology-of-poems-wadih-saadeh
نص جميل كتبه الأخ الحبيب جولان حاجي بمناسبة صدور مجموعتي المترجمة لقصائد وديع سعادة
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Thanks!
