Tagged: Sinan Antoon

On Ibn al-Hajjaj…

…Whose Poems Schoolboys Were Beaten for Memorizing Another excellent post on  MLYNXQUALEY‘s Arab literature (in English) site, from MARCH 10, 2014 • ( 1 ) If there were two disappointments I had while reading the opening chapter of Sinan...

Nostalgia, My Enemy

Saadi Youssef, born in 1934 in Basra, Iraq, has lived in exile for some 30 years now — currently in London, England. Mahmood Darwish has called him a major influence, saying that “Saadi Youssef,...

Sinan Antoon’s Darwish Translation Gets ALTA Award

Via Arabic Literature (in English) blog: Antoon Wins 2012 National Translation Award for ‘In the Presence of Absence’ Posted on October 7, 2012 by mlynxqualey | Leave a comment On Friday, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced that it had honored...

Sinan Antoon’s Iraq War Diary

Last month, the excellent Jadaliyya site published extracts from poet-writer-translator Sinan Antoon’s Iraq war-time diary entitled A Barbarian in Rome. Below the opening paras: [The following are excerpts from a longer text in the form of...