Arabic-L:LIT:Arabic Translation Award Announcement

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1) Subject: Arabic Translation Award Announcement

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Date:  28 Nov 2001
From: Suzanne Smith <sesmith at uark.edu>
Subject: Arabic Translation Award Announcement

The King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
and
The University of Arkansas Press announce the first annual

Arkansas Arabic Translation Award

The award carries a $5000 prize for the translator or translators and a
$5000 prize for the original author, if living.  The University of
Arkansas Press will publish the award-winning translation.  Runners-up
may also be considered for publication.  Submissions must not be under
contract with another press.

The competition for 2001-2002 will focus on the modern era (19th century
to the present).  Suitable entries may include works of fiction (either
prose or poetry) or non-fiction works in the literary tradition (such as
memoirs, theoretical writings, essays, or travel literature).  The focus
of the competition will alternate each year between modern and
pre-modern works.  The first competition for translations of pre-modern
Arabic literature will be held in 2002-2003.  All submissions will be
judged blindly by a three-person jury of distinguished
scholar-translators chosen from outside the University of Arkansas
system.  Different juries will judge translations of modern and
pre-modern texts.  Current students, faculty, or staff of the University
of Arkansas, their spouses, or immediate family members are not eligible
to submit translations. Original authors may not submit their own
translations.

Entries for the 2001-2002 award must be received by April 1, 2002. The
winner will be announced in November 2002, in conjunction will the
annual Middle East Studies Association meeting.  Entrants should submit
four copies of the translation with all contact information on a cover
letter.

Please direct all submissions to:

Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
University of Arkansas
202 Old Main
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701

Phone: (501) 575-4157
E-mail: sesmith at uark.edu

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