by Adania Shibli (Author), Paula Haydar (Translator)
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Author Biography
Adania Shibli, novelist, essayist, and playwright, has twice received the A.M. Qattan Foundation's Young Writer Award-Palestine. She is also the author of We Are All Equally Far From Love (Interlink). Her latest novel, Minor Detail, was a finalist for the National Book Award and longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.
Paula Haydar is Clinical Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Arkansas. She holds a PhD degree in comparative literature and an M.F.A. degree in literary translation. She has translated numerous novels by contemporary Lebanese, Palestinian, and Jordanian authors. Her translation of Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy's
June Rain was selected as the highly commended runner-up of the 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and also made the
Daily Star's list of Top Middle East Novels of 2014. Her translations of Lebanese authors also include three novels by Elias Khoury (
Gates of the City,
The Journey of Little Gandhi, and
The Kingdom of Strangers) and three novels by Rashid al-Daif (
This Side of Innocence ,
Learning English, and
Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep?). Her translations of novels by Palestinian writers include Sahar Khalifeh's
The End of Spring and Adania Shibli's
Touch (Interlink). Her most recent translation is
What Price Paradise by Jordanian writer Jamal Naji.
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.6 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 10, 2013
