Ibrahim Al-Koni

Broschiertes Buch

The Scarecrow

Beschreibung

Published in Arabic as al-Fazzaa. Beirut: al-Muassasa al-Arabiya li-l-Dirasat wa-l-Nashr, 1998.

Autor

Born in 1948 to a nomadic Saharan family, Ibrahim al-Koni is an award-winning Arabic-language novelist and has already published more than seventy volumes. A Tuareg whose mother tongue is Tamasheq, he was educated in Moscow and, after many years in Switzerland, now lives in Spain. He is one of the prime authorities on Tuareg culture and folklore.William M. Hutchins, Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Appalachian State University, has translated numerous works of Arabic literature into English, including four novels by the Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz. He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for literary translation, both for works by Ibrahim al-Koni. He was co-winner of the 2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for A Land Without Jasmine by Wajdi al-Ahdal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781477302521
• ISBN-10: 1477302522
• Artikelnr.: 41672697