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SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 — English PEN and the Booker Prize Foundation today announced the six winners of the first-ever round of “PEN Presents x International Booker Prize,” an edition of the English PEN award for sample translations, launched in partnership with the Booker Prize Foundation. The new prize aims to “support translators from the Global Majority.” The six winning titles were chosen from a…

APRIL 16, 2025 — English PEN and the Booker Prize Foundation today announced the twelve books — and thirteen translators — shortlisted for the inaugural round of PEN Presents x International Booker Prize, a grant program “launched to support translators from the Global Majority.“ Notably, twelve of the translators are being recognized for the first time by PEN Presents in this fresh and diverse…

Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s Samahani is out this week from Foundry Editions in team translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir. Samahani–which means “forgive me” in Swahili, stands “in stark contrast to everything that happens in this novel,” the publisher writes, adding, “Set in 19th century Zanzibar, this is a dark story of slavery, cruelty and vengeance, that depict the agonies of the native…

Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s Samahani is out today from Foundry Editions in team translation by Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir. Samahani–which means “forgive me” in Swahili, stands “in stark contrast to everything that happens in this novel,” the publisher writes, adding, “Set in 19th century Zanzibar, this is a dark story of slavery, cruelty and vengeance, that depict the agonies of the native…