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"If I Were Another" by Mahmoud Darwish [BTBA 2010 Poetry Finalists]

Over the next four days, we’ll be featuring each of the ten titles from this year’s Best Translated Book Award poetry shortlist. Click here for all past write-ups. If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish. Translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah (Palestine, FSG) This guest post is by Brandon ...

Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize

Fady Joudah has been awarded the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for his translation of the late Mahmoud Darwish’s The Butterfly’s Burden. From The Guardian: The Butterfly’s Burden, published as a bilingual edition, brings together the first three volumes of poetry Darwish published on his return to ...