Radwa Ashour

The Woman from Tantoura

A Novel from Palestine
Übersetzer: Heikkinen, Kay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rich, sweeping novel of Palestine with the Nakba at its heart, by an acclaimed author

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 131mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9789774169007
• ISBN-10: 977416900X
• Artikelnr.: 53542039

Autorenporträt

Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) is a highly acclaimed Egyptian writer and scholar. She is the author of more than fifteen works of fiction, memoir, and criticism, including Granada (AUC Press, 2008) and Specters (AUC Press, 2010), and was a recipient of the Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature and the prestigious Owais Prize for Fiction. Kay Heikkinen is a translator and academic who holds a PhD from Harvard University. She was previously Ibn Rushd Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Among other books, she has translated Naguib Mahfouz's In the Time of Love and Huzama Habayeb's Velvet, for which she was awarded the 2020 Saif-Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. She lives in Seattle, Washington.