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  • “Kafka on the Thames”: Shady Lewis reviewed in Le Monde and Marianne

    Shady Lewis’s On The Greenwich Line, which has just appeared in French as Sur le méridien de Greenwich (translated by Sophie Pommier and May Rostom, and published by Actes Sud) has been warmly received in France. Marianne is calling Shady “Kafka sur la Thamise,” a well deserved title for a novelist who’s deeply concerned with […]

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  • Read Sandra’s essay ‘Watch Out, I’m About to Sing’ in English

    “Speaking for myself, translation is an ideal occupation; it allows me to settle comfortably into my liminal existence. And to me, this liminal existence seems the ideal place from which to translate.” A few months ago, 10/11 founder and star translator Sandra Hetzl published a deeply moving essay for Toledo on who she is and […]

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  • Shady Lewis declines Sawiris best novel award

    Teneleven writer Shady Lewis this week declined the 2022 Sawiris Cultural Award for best book by an established writer, awarded to his novel A Brief History of Genesis and Eastern Cairo (Dar Elain, 2021). The Sawiris Cultural Awards are granted across a range of categories within the arts by the Sawiris Foundation, which is endowed by […]

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  • Shady Lewis’s „Auf dem Nullmeridian“ wins Litprom funding

    Teneleven author Shady Lewis’s first novel to appear into German, Auf dem Nullmeridian (‘Ala Khatt Greenwich, or “On The Greenwich Line”) has just won a translation grant from Litprom, which promotes world literature in the German-speaking book markets. Of the fourteen titles to receive funding, Auf dem Nullmeridian was the only translation from Arabic. Auf […]

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  • PEN Berlin spotlight Alaa Abd el-Fattah at Frankfurt Book Fair

    This Saturday at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the newly founded PEN Berlin will be hosting a panel entitled Die Ikone des Arabischen Frühlings und das Lieblingsland der deutschen Rüstungslobby (“The icon of the Arab spring and the German arms lobby’s favourite country”). Markus N. Beeko, secretary general of Amnesty International Germany, teneleven’s own Katharine Halls, […]

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