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Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle has translated a wide range of academic and literary works from Dutch/Flemish into English, as well as poetry and literary non-fiction, in addition to teaching at the University of Leuven in Belgium.
His literary translations include Jacqueline van Maarsen’s Inheriting Anne Frank (2010) and Tessa de Loo's The Book of Doubt (2011), and recent projects include Jef Geeraerts’ The Public Prosecutor (2009), Jacqueline van Maarsen’s Inheriting Anne Frank (2010), Christiaan Weijts’ The Window Dresser (2010), Tessa de Loo’s The Book of Doubt (2011), Paul Glaser’s Dancing with the Enemy (2012), and Bob Van Laerhoven’s Baudelaire’s Revenge (2014).
He is also responsible for The Square of Revenge (2012), The Midas Murders (2013), and From Bruges with Love (2015), the first three novels in Pieter Aspe’s “Detective Van In” series.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 51 - Celebrating Saadi Youssef (2014)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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Banipal Book Club
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