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May 6, 2015Australian artist Peter Gould’s “Iqra Bookshelf” (2011). The word Iqra’ (“Read”) is deeply symbolic to Muslims, as it was the first word of revelation given to the Prophet Muham…
November 21, 20142014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia CoutoNews, Reviews, and InterviewsLast weekend, PEN International asked the international literary community to stand in solidarity a…
October 31, 2014Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt feather. Photo by Vanesssa Rudloff.Thank you to all of our readers who supported the 2014 Neustadt Festival last week! It was a wonderful celebration of Mia Couto and…
October 28, 2014Photo by Marsha Brockman/Flickr To say literary translation is to commit a pleonasm. All translation is intrinsically literary, in the same way every text is, at least for one of the three legs t…
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