In this panel scheduled for May 24, 1–2 p.m. ET; moderated by Ed Nawotka, PW’s bookselling and international editor; and presented by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Tahera Qutbuddin, a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Chicago; Michael Cooperson, an American author, translator, and professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles; and one of the 2022 SZBA winners discuss the importance of sharing Arabic literature and culture around the world.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Its First Translation Grant of 2021
The Syrian author Khalil Sweileh’s ‘Remorse Test,’ winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Literature, is to be translated into Ukrainian by Nora-Druk Publishers.
Syrian novelist, poet, and journalist Khalil Sweileh. Image: Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Ninth Translation Supported by a Zayed Award Grant
The first announced translation grant of a Sheikh Zayed Book Award winning title this year goes to the Ukrainian publishing house Nora-Druk.
Translator Oksana Prokhorovych is assigned to make the Ukrainian translation of Khalil Sweileh’s
Ikhtibar Al-Nadam (Remorse Test), according to today’s announcement (February 25) from the Sheikh Zayed award offices at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre.