Khaled Mattawa wins Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize
The 2011 Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, the sixth year of the prize, is awarded to Khaled Mattawa for his translation of Adonis: Selected Poems, published by Yale University Press. The judges were unanimous in voting Khaled Mattawa’s translation the winner and agreed easily on the runner-up and the commended translation. Read more here.
Khaled Mattawa will be reading with Adonis as part of our tribute to the great Syrian poet and artist at 7pm, Friday February 3. Please buy tickets here.