Arabic-L:TRANS:A New Translation of Zakariyya Tamir's short stories

[Nathan Arp]

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Date: 24 Sep  2004
From:Studioworks <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:A New Translation of Zakariyya Tamir's short stories

Hi all,
 
A new collection of 59 short stories by Zakariyya Tamir is out in  
Belgrade (Zekerija Tamir: Kiselo grozdje. Paideia, Beograd, 2004, ISBN  
86-7448-217-1, 126+12 pg's). It is the complete translation to the  
Serbian language of Tamir's "al-HuSrum" (the author himself pronounces  
it so), [Sour Grapes], riyaaD al-rayyis li-l-kutub wa al-nashr, 2000.  
The contract was signed and the final text of translation delivered  
back in March 2002, but the publisher proved able to waste no less than  
two years and a half. If this perhaps does not seem as a big deal, let  
me mention that the translation was ready a little before the original  
book appeared in Arabic, for Tamir sent me the original by e-mail as  
soon as it was done in his workshop. However, in spring 2000 no one of  
the then Yugoslav publishers was apt to sustain expenses of bringing  
the author from Oxford for the sake of making here the first world  
promotion of the book, though Tamir is pretty well known between the  
audience of former Yugoslavia (this is his fifth collection in Serbian  
during 4 years, since I started translating his works).
 
Two more Serbian translations of Tamir's books are in preparation at  
the moment: the newest, taksiir rukab, and nidaa' nuuH (both finished,  
under negotiations with publisher).
   
Cheers,
Srpko Lestaric

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