Awards
January 11, 2023
On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by the award-winning novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel, published by Hoopoe Fiction in 2022, is… READ MORE
December 11, 2022
On December 11, AUC Press announced the award of the 2022 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to the Egyptian writer Fatma Qandil for her debut novel Aqfas farigha (Empty Cages). The award… READ MORE
December 1, 2022
The winner of the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is Rasha Adly’s novel, Shaghaf, “superbly translated” into English by Sarah Enany as The Girl with Braided Hair, published by Hoopoe… READ MORE
