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Abdelfattah Kilito
Abdelfattah Kilito is a prominent Moroccan writer and literary critic. Kilito (b. 1945) is currently Professor of Arts at Mohammed V University in Rabat and has won awards such as the French Academy Award (Le prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises) (1996), and the Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).
Kilito is atypical among North African writers in that he writes and publishes in both Arabic and French. He has published several books in French and in Arabic and his stories and essays have also appeared in a variety of French- and Arabic-language magazines and newspapers.
A few of Kilito’s works in literary criticism have been translated into English and his collection of short stories La querelle des images (1995) was translated into English by Robyn Creswell as The Clash of Images (New Directions, 2010). The story “On Averroes’s Balcony” was first published in French (“Du balcon d’Averroès”) in the collection Le cheval de Nietzsche (Casablanca: Fennec, 2007) and was published in Arabic translation in 2009.
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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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