Heart of Lebanon featured in Arab America
Arab America featured an interview with May Rihani, niece of Ameen Rihani and Director of of the George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland. She discussed the new translation of The Heart of Lebanon and Rihani’s role as a bridge between the East and the West. Read the full interview here. “The book has a timelessness to it that all readers will enjoy.”
Hot Maroc reviewed in Asymptote
Yassin Adnan’s novel Hot Maroc, translated by Alexander Elinson, was included in Asymptote’s roundup of new translations in July 2021. “The satirical novel, deftly translated by Alexander E. Elinson, is unmistakably Moroccan, but deals with universal issues: political corruption, blowhards and know-it-alls, and internet anonymity.” Read the full review
Hot Maroc shortlisted for the 2022 Banipal Prize
SU Press is delighted to announce that Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan and translated from the Arabic by Alexander Elinson is among the three shortlisted works for the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. The Banipal judges praised Adnan’s novel and Elinson’s translation. “Yassin Adnan’s amusing satire is an ambitious and wide-ranging novel. It has been skilfully translated by Alexander Elinson, who has produced a very readable novel in English, while also retaining a little of the Arabic style and flavour. Language is a topic on various levels within Adnan’s novel, which employs different registers of Arabic…
New York Times includes two SU Press translations in Globetrotting feature
Two new novels in translation are included in the New York Time’s Globetrotting feature which offers a preview of forthcoming books in translation. Hafez in Love: A Novel by Iraj Pezeshkshad is translated from the Arabic by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Patricia J. Higgins. Hot Maroc: A Novel by Yassin Adnan is translated by Alexander Elinson.
Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland receives Rhodes Prize Honorable Mention
Adam Hanna’s Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland received the Robert Rhodes Prize for Literature Honorable Mention from the American Council for Irish Studies.
Sons of the People longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
Reem Bassiouney’s novel Sons of the People is among the 70 books nominated by 84 libraries in 31 countries for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award. Now in its 28th year, the award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council, is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English, worth €100,000 to the winner.
Surrender reviewed in The Hopkins Review
Surrender: Stories by Brian O’Hare was reviewed in The Hopkins Review.
Surrender reviewed in Real Clear Defense
Brett Allen reviewed Surrender: Stories by Brian O’Hare in Real Clear Defense. “O’Hare is brilliant when it comes to building lyrical prose that punches hard but avoids pretentious verbiage.”