The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Egyptian author Hamdi Abu Golayyel, translated by Humphrey Davies (Hoopoe, 2022), is among the three shortlisted works for the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Sherif Meleka will be talking about his new novel Suleiman’s Ring, translated by Raymond Stock (Hoopoe, 2023), signing copies, and reading extracts from the novel, at two separate events this month, hosted by Barnes & Noble
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Here are some great reads for this spring and summer…. To read at home, in the garden, on a plane, on the beach, at the pool, at a café…. Anywhere! These novels will take you on a journey to Cairo, …
Elizabeth Loudon’s novel, A Stranger in Baghdad, longlisted for the Bridport Novel Award, published by Hoopoe, will be out in May 2023.
Hoopoe sat down with Elizabeth Loudon to find out more about why she set the novel in …
A fascinating interview between ArabLit‘s Tugrul Mende and Nancy Roberts, translator of Ibrahim al-Koni’s The Night Will Have Its Say, published by Hoopoe (2022).
Mende begins by introducing the novel. She writes: “Ibrahim al-Koni’s language-mixing historical novel The …
In this recent interview with Ahmed Taibaoui, the Algerian writer speaks about Mr. Nobody, the central character in his noir novel The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody, translated by Jonathan Wright (Hoopoe, 2023), for which Taibaoui won the 2021 Naguib …
Hoopoe sat down with Sherif Meleka, author of Suleiman’s Ring, (Hoopoe, March 2023), to find out more about what drove him to write about an enchanted ring which brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player, creating …
On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by the award-winning novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel, published by Hoopoe in 2022, is one of the two winners chosen for …
This month Hoopoe is offering you the chance to be one of the three lucky winners to receive a free copy of the gripping novel The Night Will Have Its Say by the International Booker Prize finalist Ibrahim al-Koni, translated …
Amelia Smith from the Middle East Monitor interviews Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni about his novel The Night Will Have Its Say, translated by Nancy Roberts (Hoopoe, 2022).
“It is the seventh century CE and the Ummayad forces are advancing …