{"id":259916,"date":"2008-01-29T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T19:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/01\/29\/arabic-fiction-prize-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:37","slug":"arabic-fiction-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/01\/29\/arabic-fiction-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic Fiction Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the first ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicfiction.org\/en\/shortlist.html\">Arabic Fiction Prize<\/a> has just been announced. This award&#8212;officially the International Prize for Arabic Fiction&#8212;was launched last year in collaboration with the Booker Prize Foundation to bring more attention to Arabic writing. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Douaihy Jabbour <i>June rain<\/i> (Lebanese)<\/li>\n<li>Farkouh Elias <i>The land of Purgatory<\/i> (Jordanian)<\/li>\n<li>Khalifa Khaled <i>In praise of hate<\/i> (Syrian)<\/li>\n<li>Menassa May <i>Walking in the dust<\/i> (Lebanese)<\/li>\n<li>Said Mekkaou <i>Swan song<\/i> (Egyptian)<\/li>\n<li>Taher Baha <i>Sunset oasis<\/i> (Egyptian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As stated on their website, &#8220;The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be nominated for the Booker longlist or selected for inclusion in the shortlist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of which is true&#8212;although moreso for the British Booker than the Russian or African ones, unfortunately&#8212;which hopefully means that at least some of these books will end up being translated and published in English. <\/p>\n<p>As with any prize of this nature, I really wish they had samples available on their website . . . It&#8217;s not like they picked the six books this morning. And beyond being on this list, a sample would go a long way in getting a UK\/U.S. press interested in these books. <\/p>\n<p>Each of the writers on the shortlist receives $10,000, and the final winner will receive an additional $50,000. The winner will be announced on March 10th in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the first ever Arabic Fiction Prize has just been announced. This award&#8212;officially the International Prize for Arabic Fiction&#8212;was launched last year in collaboration with the Booker Prize Foundation to bring more attention to Arabic writing. Here&#8217;s the list: Douaihy Jabbour June rain (Lebanese) Farkouh Elias The land of Purgatory (Jordanian) Khalifa Khaled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[9916,1836],"class_list":["post-259916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-arabic-fiction-prize","tag-cwp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359636,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259916\/revisions\/359636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}