Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

The Arkansas Arabic Translation Award (full title: the University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation) is a prize given for a notable English translation of a book-length literary work originally written in the Arabic language.[1] The award is administered by the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas. Since 2008, the prize-winning book has been published by the Syracuse University Press as part of their Middle Eastern literature series. Prior to 2008, the University of Arkansas Press published the award-winning entry. The prize money is $5000 for the translator and $5000 for the original author. Both fiction and non-fiction works are eligible for the award. Along with the Banipal Prize, the Arkansas Award is the leading prize in the field of Arabic-to-English literary translation.

Past winners

Written by Jurji Zaydan; translated by Samah Selim

Written by Mahmoud Saeed; translated by Allen Salter, Rafah Abu Ennab, and Zahra Jhishi

Written by Reem Bassiouney; translated by Osman Nusairi

Written by Abbas Beydoun; translated by Max Weiss

Previous winners published by the University of Arkansas Press:

Written by Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf; translated by Leon Carl Brown

Written by Muhsin al-Ramli; translated by Yasmeen Hanoosh

Written by Jabbour Douaihy; translated by Nay Hannawi

Written by Mohammad Afifi; translated by Lisa J. White

Written by Ghada Samman; translated by Issa J. Boullata

Written by Idris Ali; translated by Peter Theroux

Written by Muhammad Afifi Matar; translated by Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden

Written by Nazik Saba Yared; translated by Stuart A. Hancox

Written by Hatif Janabi; translated by Khaled Mattawa

Written by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra; translated by Issa J. Boullata

Written by Elias Khoury; translated by Paula Haydar

Written by Ghada Samman; translated by Nancy N. Roberts

Written by Sahar Tawfiq; translated by Marilyn Booth

See also

References

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