The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE -a center for research, documentation, and study of Africa and its diaspora -has announced seven new faculty appointments, fellows of its Research Fellowship Program, the fellows of its inaugural class of Global Africa Translation Fellows, and the launch of a new Creative Writing fellowship program.
Bandershah novellas (1971 and 1976). Then, after the second
Bandershah novella appeared, Salih never published another, though he was to live for around 30 more years.
A shift to non-fiction
In the late 1980s, Salih began to publish literary essays in the London-based journal
al-Majallah. His series of “Mansi” essays was launched in 1988, a year after his friend’s death, Babikir writes in his introduction. They were finally collected together in book form sixteen years later. Adil Babikir s translation captures the cadence and humour in Salih s voice, writes award-winning author Leila Aboulela. At times I did wish for less of the impish Mansi and more of Salih. But nevertheless, it was a joy to keep company with the genius behind Season of Migration and I hope more of his non-fiction writing will be made available to English language readers
The Best Translated Books You Missed in 2020
As we approach the end of 2020, we’ve been speaking with translators, critics, publishers, writers, and booksellers about outstanding books in translation that readers might have missed this year. Read on for recommendations from Daniel Hahn, Maya Jaggi, Meng Jin, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Boyd Tonkin, and more.
Ulysses and
Mrs. Dalloway, this book, first published in Hindi in 1963, traces the experiences of a flaneur wandering through a city over the course of a single day, recording his experiences, memories, reflections, and emotional reactions to the world around him. The setting is the city of Jalandhar in 1930, an era of rapid change as India launched forward, fusing elements of its long, rich past with modern ideas and cultural elements to form a new, hybrid culture, amplified in all of its complexity by the country s dazzlingly complex multiethnic and multilingual nature.