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.
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.
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: Stories by Brian O’Hare was reviewed in The Hopkins Review.
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.”
Douglas Armstrong’s The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman’s Life in Freedom received the 2022 CNY Book Award for Nonfiction. In addition, Beaver River Country: An Adirondack History by Edward Pitts was one of the finalists. Find the complete list of winners and finalists here.
Gustavo Barbosa’s new book The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon was reviewed in Arab Studies Quarterly.
“Like all serious travellers, Murphy chased the purest experience, was contemptuous of mass-market tourism and yearned for an era when crossing the globe was more difficult.”—Tim Fanning, the Irish Times