Shahla Ujayli

Broschiertes Buch

A Bed for the King's Daughter

Beschreibung

A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine women's agency and the decline of modern

Autor

Shahla Ujayli is the author of four novels: The Cat's Eye (2006), which won the Jordan State Award for Literature 2009; Persian Carpet (2012); A Sky Close to Our House (2015), which was IPAF-shortlisted in 2016; and Summer with the Enemy (2018), which was IPAF-shortlisted in 2019. She has also published one other short collection in Arabic, The Latticed Window (2005). The Arabic edition of A Bed for the King's Daughter (2016) won the 2017 Al-Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story awarded by the American University in Kuwait. Sawad Hussain is the winner of the 2019 Arablit Short Story Prize and an English PEN Translates award. She co-teaches a workshop on translating Arabic comics at UK secondary schools via the collective Shadow Heroes. Her upcoming translations include a Palestinian surrealistic work by Akram Musallam for Seagull Books. She holds an MA in modern Arabic literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Produktdetails

• Emerging Voices from the Middle East
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 136mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 118g
• ISBN-13: 9781477322284
• ISBN-10: 1477322280
• Artikelnr.: 59913732