Just received the latest English PEN newsletter, featuring several book launches, that I thought my followers may be interested in:
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New
collection of short stories from Gaza launches in the UK
The Book of
Gaza, an anthology of short stories from Palestinian writers
translated into English for the first time, will be published by Comma Press in
June. Join English PEN in celebrating its launch at one of several
events over the coming weeks, the first of which will take place at The Mosaic Rooms
on Monday 2 June with editor Atef
Abu Seif and author Abdallah Tayeh.
About the
book
Under the Israeli occupation of the ’70s and ’80s, writers in Gaza
had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing
their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand,
invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to
Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up.
Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and short
stories flourished as the city’s form of choice. Indeed, to
Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as ‘the exporter of oranges
and short stories’.
Bringing together the voices of Gazan pioneers of the form new and
old, this anthology is a compilation of human stories that transcend
global headlines; stories exploring what it means to be a
Palestinian, and how that identity is continually being reforged;
stories of ordinary characters struggling to live with dignity in
what many have called ‘the largest prison in the world’.
Atef Abu
Seif and Abdallah
Tayeh will take part in a series of events in the
UK:
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Alexei Nikitin
on Kiev’s militant spring
Alexei
Nikitin writes for PEN Atlas about the tense atmosphere
in Kiev, where the café-goers listening to jazz and
the remaining protesters on the Maidan barricades await further news
from the east of the country
In Kiev it’s warm, and this year the chestnuts and lilacs have come
into bloom ten days early. Kiev is especially beautiful in May and at
this time of year the city brims with tourists...
Read more...
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Reminder: Translating the Syrian News
Thurs 29 May, 7pm
There are a few tickets to Translating the Syrian
News still available via
Free Word and free
entry is available to all PEN members. RSVP to rebekah@englishpen.org to reserve
your space.
Chaired by Malu
Halasa, a panel of journalists from Syria, the
UK and France will discuss global reporting of events in Syria, and
what is presented to international and domestic audiences.
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