Samar Yazbek

Planet of Clay

Übersetzer: Price, Leri

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published as Al Macha'a in 2017 by Dar al-Adab in Lebanon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: World Editions
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781642861013
• ISBN-10: 1642861014
• Artikelnr.: 60943970

Autorenporträt

Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer, novelist, and journalist. She was born in Jableh in 1970 and studied literature before beginning her career as a journalist and a scriptwriter for Syrian television and film. Her novels include Child of Heaven, Clay, Cinnamon, In Her Mirrors, and Planet of Clay . Her accounts of the Syrian conflict include A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution and The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria. Yazbek's work has been translated into multiple languages and has been recognized with numerous awards-notably, the French Best Foreign Book Award, the PEN-Oxfam Novib, PEN Tucholsky, and PEN Pinter awards. Leri Price is an award-winning literary translator of contemporary Arabic fiction. Price's translation of Khaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature (US) and winner of the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Her translation of Khaled Khalifa's No Knives in the Kitchens of This City was shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award. Price's other recent translations include Sarab by award-winning writer Raja Alem.