{"id":275606,"date":"2009-12-17T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/12\/17\/2010-arabic-booker-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:12","slug":"2010-arabic-booker-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/12\/17\/2010-arabic-booker-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Arabic Booker Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Nawotka&#8217;s piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/?p=9305\">Publishing Perspectives<\/a> is the first mention I&#8217;ve seen of this, but on Tuesday, the six finalists for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (aka, the &#8220;Arabic Booker&#8221;) were announced. Each finalist received $10,000 and the winner gets an additional $50,000. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the shortlist with the author&#8217;s country in parenthesis:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>A Cloudy Day on the West Side<\/em> by Muhammad Al-Mansi Qindeel (Egypt)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Beyond Paradise<\/em> by Mansoura Ez Eldin (Egypt)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>America<\/em> by Rabee Jabir (Lebanon)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>She Throws Sparks<\/em> by Abdo Khal (Saudi Arabia)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Lady from Tel Aviv<\/em> by Raba\u2019i Madhoun (Palestine)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>When the Wolves Grow Old<\/em> by Jamal Naji (Jordan)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully someone will put up sample translations from all of these in the not-too-distant future. If\/when somebody does, I&#8217;ll be sure to link . . . <\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced in early March, at the same time as the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/subscribe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/131.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Nawotka&#8217;s piece in Publishing Perspectives is the first mention I&#8217;ve seen of this, but on Tuesday, the six finalists for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (aka, the &#8220;Arabic Booker&#8221;) were announced. Each finalist received $10,000 and the winner gets an additional $50,000. Here is the shortlist with the author&#8217;s country in parenthesis: [&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":[29426,10756,5906],"class_list":["post-275606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-arabic-booker","tag-international-prize-for-arabic-fiction","tag-literary-prizes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275606","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=275606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349906,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275606\/revisions\/349906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}