Banipal 58 - Arab Literary Awards Bernardine Evaristo

Banipal 58 - Arab Literary Awards Bernardine EvaristoThe Spring issue starts our 20th year of publication with a wide range of works, including the title feature on Arab Literary Awards in which publishers, critics, authors, and literary journalists write about the impact of these awards on encouraging reading, on creative writing and on the literary scene. Also excerpts from the six shortlisted novels of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, short stories from Naguib Mahfouz, Muhammad

The tone shifts throughout between the elegiac and the sharply satirical

The first book on Scottish wells for over three decades

Fans of his children’s books will enjoy the way these poems combine the silly and the sinister to catch the surrealism of everyday life

+ Pem Sluijter

She is currently an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College

pushes the text out to demand a co-creative act of reading"

of indigenous people and migrants

His other books include Barry and the Great War (2007) and Strange Hells

Take My Word For It is full of rich insights into both the personal and Jamaica emerging into difficult modernity

Asphalt (Salmon

Lebanese poets occupy an extremely important place in the Arab poetry scene

Sinead Morrissey and Paula Meehan