The Arkansas Arabic Translation Award, sponsored by the King Fahd Center and the University of Arkansas Press, supports and publishes nationally competitive translations of important Arabic writing. Awarded annually, the prize includes up to $5000 for the translator or translators, and up to $5000 for the original author or authors, and publication.
Submissions must be previously published book-length works in Arabic (compilations or anthologies of poems or short stories are acceptable so long as the individual works have been published). The prize has focused on works dating from the 19th Century to the present. Translations of works written prior to the 19th Century C.E. may be
considered for the award on a case-by-case basis. Entries may include: works of fiction (either prose or poetry), non-fiction works in the literary tradition (such as memoirs, theoretical writings, essays, travel literature), or non-fiction works of academic significance.
Previous award winners published by the University of Arkansas and Syracuse Presses include:
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Muhsin al-Ramli, Scattered Crumbs (Translated by Yasmeen Hanoosh) |
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Muhammad Afifi, Little Songs in the Shade of the Tamaara
(Translated by Lisa White) |
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Idris Ali, Dongola: A Novel of Nubia
(Translated by Peter Theroux) |
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Jabbour Douaihy, Autumn Equinox
(Translated by Nay Hannawi) |
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood
(Translated by Issa J. Boullata) |
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Hatif Janabi, Questions and Their Retinue
(Translated by Khaled Mattawa) |
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Elias Khoury, The Kingdom of Strangers
(Translated by Paula Haydar) |
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Muhammad Afaf Matar, Quartet of Joy
(Translated by Ferial Ghazoul and Verlenden) |
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Ghada Samman, Beirut '75
(Translated by Nancy N. Roberts) |
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Ghada Samman, The Square Moon: Supernatural Tales (Translated by Issa J. Boullata) |
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Sahar Tawfiq, Points of the Compass
(Translated by Marilyn Booth) |
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Nazik Saba Yared, Improvisations on a Missing String
(Translated by Stuart A. Hancox) |
For further information regarding submission guidelines for the upcoming Arabic Translation Award, feel free to contact the Fahd Center Office (mest@uark.edu) or Professor Adnan Haydar (ahaydar@uark.edu), the award coordinator.
