Mohamed Samir Nada is the first Egyptian to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction since 2009. He’s published by Masciliana. Winning author Mohamed-Samir-Nada at the 2025 International Award for Arabic Fiction ceremony on April 24 in Abu Dhabi. Image: IPAF, Khéridine Mabrouk, Shaaman By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Considerable Virtuosity and Narrative Acumen’ […]
Sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction issues a 16-title longlist. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: UAE: Abu Dhabi Book Fair Announces Its Dates through 2030 An IPAF Shortlist is Scheduled for February 19 This year’s US$50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist has been
Richard Charkin discovers that his barber from Türkiye is a writer whose translator is a retired electrical engineer. Unisex Salon Ozan in London’s Hackney borough, northeast of Charing Cross. Image: Richard Charkin By Richard Charkin | @RCharkin ‘I Am Not a Sartorial Dandy’ I thought I might start the year with an upbeat piece about a strange
The Ukrainian Book Institute has opened its 2025 call, offering funding for international publishers to translate Ukrainian books into other languages this year. An illustration from the Ukrainian Book Institute referencing the market’s catalogues for 2024 and earlier. Image: UBI By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Deadline for Applications: February 10 The Ukrainian Book Institute
Our highlighted books in this Rights Roundup come from Finland, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Italy. An excerpt from the Giunti Editore publication of Ciriaco Offeddu’s ‘Istella mea,’ publishing on February 12. Image: Giunti Editore, based on an illustration by Alana Jordan, Pixabay By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also in our Rights
Tackling a mounting challenge, a novel rights arrangement will see Hanser publish TC Boyle in both German and English-for-Europe. Hanser Verlag’s stand in Hall 3.1 at the 2022 Frankfurter Buchmesse. Image: FBM, Anett Weirauch By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘They Like To Read English Books’ In recent years, publishers and rights directors in various
Peirene Press and Two Lines Press are teaming up to produce and publish the winner of this year’s Stevns Translation Prize. From left are Adriana Hunter, Kate Briggs, and Amanda Quinn By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Deadline to Enter: April In a transatlantic partnership called, the United Kingdom’s Peirene Press and the United States’
Eve Hill-Agnus and Gregory Elliott are the winners of the 2024 Albertine Translation Prize for French-to-English translation. At the evening honoring Eve Hill-Agnus and Gregory Elliott as winners of the 2025 Albertine Translation Prize. Image: Albertine, Kimberly Corliss By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Two Cash Awards of US$5,000 The Albertine Translation Fund is designed
For the first time in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s ‘Creative Writing Nadwa’ event series: a workshop on editing. From left at the IPAF workshop on literary editing are Ridha Hasni, Nizar Al-Hmoud, Yara Elmasry, and Muhamad Jamal in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s editing workshop. Image: Showman Foundation, Abdul Hameed By Porter
Today’s reports come to us from Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Poland. Not the Valentine’s Day type, perhaps, 5-year-old Emma dislikes her relative’s fond kisses until Titanic the dog comes to live with her, in Anita Lehman and Kasia Fryza’s ‘Slobber Slobber Kiss Kiss.’ Image: KaBooks Agency By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief |
