#impostures

Two Maghrebi Poetry Collections, ‘Impostures’ Shortlisted for 2021 National Translation Awards

On International Translation Day (September 30), the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the shortlist for their 2021 awards in poetry and prose: The awards, now in their twenty-third year, are the “only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished…

Rebuilding that Old Tower of Babel, A Talk with Michael Cooperson

Today, journalist and translator AJ Naddaff launches his series of talks with translators of premodern Arabic literature, which he tongue-in-cheek calls “Untranslateable”: The bi-monthly series will appear here and at his substack, where you can subscribe. By AJ Naddaff According to the Moroccan literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito, the ancients “unconsciously endeavored to make their works…

Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards

Three outstanding Maghrebi collections, in English translation, have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry: They are Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Agadir, translated from French by Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak; Samira Negroughe’s The Olive Trees’ Jazz and Other Poems, translated from French by Marilyn Hacker; and the anthology Poetic Justice: An Anthology of…

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