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Adil Babikir
Adil Babikir is a Sudanese translator into and out of English & Arabic, living now in Abu Dhabi.
He has translated Mansi: a Rare Man in his Own Way by Tayeb Salih, which was excerpted initially in Banipal 56 (2016) and then published as a book by Banipal Books in 2020. It jointly won third prize for translation Arabic to English in the 2020 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding, known generally as the Hamad Translation Award.
He has translated two novels by Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, including The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth (Africa World Press, 2015). Other translations include two anthologies – of poetry and short stories., including Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan, Ed. Bhakti Shringarpure (Red Sea Press, 2016.
His most recent work is an anthology of Sudanese poetry Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology (University of Nebraska Press, 2021).
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Contributor's Issues
Banipal 63 - The 100 Best Arabic Novels (2018)
Banipal 65 - The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Summer 2019)
Banipal 61 - A Journey in Iraqi Fiction (2018)
Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
Banipal 60 - Alaa al-Deeb, A Writer Apart (Autumn/Winter 2017)
Banipal 62 - A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema (2018)
Banipal 55 - Sudanese Literature Today (Spring 2016)
Banipal 56 - Generation '56 (Summer 2016)
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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