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Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

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The Banipal Prize, whose full name is the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, is an annual prize awarded to a translator (or translators) for the published English translation of a full-length literary work in the Arabic language. The prize was inaugurated in 2006 by the literary magazine Banipal which promotes the diffusion of contemporary Arabic literature through English translations and the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature. It is administered by the Society of Authors in the UK (which runs a number of similar literary translation prizes), and the prize money is sponsored by Omar Saif Ghobash and his family in memory of Ghobash's late father Saif Ghobash. As of 2009, the prize money amounted to £3000.

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Winners and nominees

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2006

  • Humphrey Davies: Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
  • Hala Halim: Clamor of the Lake by Mohamed el-Bisatie
  • Paul Starkey: Stones of Bobello by Edwar al-Kharrat
  • Judges: Moris Farhi, Maya Jaggi, Roger Allen

    2007

  • Farouk Mustafa (pen-name Farouk Abdel Wahab): The Lodging House by Khairy Shalaby
  • Marilyn Booth: Thieves in Retirement by Hamdi Abu Golayyel
  • Peter Theroux: Saraya, The Ogre’s Daughter by Emile Habiby
  • Judges: Moris Farhi, Maya Jaggi, Roger Allen

    2008

  • Fady Joudah: The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish
  • Ghassan Nasr: The Journals of Sarab Affan by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
  • Nancy Roberts: The Man from Bashmour by Salwa Bakr
  • Judges: Marilyn Booth, Aamer Hussein, Bill Swainson, Roger Allen

    2009

  • Samah Selim: The Collar and the Bracelet by Yahya Taher Abdullah
  • Michelle Hartman: Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes
  • Elliott Colla: Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni
  • Judges: Francine Stock, Aamer Hussein, Marilyn Booth, Roger Allen

    2010

  • Humphrey Davies: Yalo by Elias Khoury
  • Humphrey Davies: Sunset Oasis by Bahaa Taher
  • Kareem James Abu-Zeid: Cities without Palms by Tarek Etayeb
  • Judges: Margaret Drabble, Susan Bassnett, Elliott Colla, Yasir Suleiman

    2011

  • Khaled Mattawa: Selected Poems by Adonis
  • Barbara Romaine: Spectres by Radwa Ashour
  • Maia Tabet: White Masks by Elias Khoury
  • Judges: Sarah Churchwell, Joan Smith, Christina Phillips, Samuel Shimon

    2012

  • Roger Allen: A Muslim Suicide by Bensalem Himmich
  • Humphrey Davies: I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mourid Barghouti
  • Judges: Ruth Padel, Esther Freud, Fadhil al-Azzawi, John Peate

    2013

  • Jonathan Wright: Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan
  • William Maynard Hutchins: A Land Without Jasmine by Wajdi al-Ahdal
  • Judges: Humphrey Davies, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Meike Ziervogel

    2014

  • Sinan Antoon: The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
  • Paula Haydar: June Rain by Jabbour Douaihy
  • Judges: Paul Blezard-Gymer, Lulu Norman, Samuel Shimon, Jonathan Wright

    2015

  • Paul Starkey for his translation of the novel The Book of the Sultan's Seal: Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars by Youssef Rakha
  • References

    Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Wikipedia


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