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To see more, please visit www.incwriters.com. Banipal is an independent literary magazine showcasing contemporary authors and poets from all over the Arab world in English translation. Founded in 1998 by Margaret Obank and Iraqi author Samuel
"Banipal is almost my chief source of information about current Arabic writing and cultural events. Without Banipal I would be much less well-read. Its past issues constitute an incomparable archive." - Robert Irwin
A combination of newly awakened curiosity about the Arab world and the tireless efforts of Banipal, an independent magazine committed to making Arab authors available to an English readership, may be about to extend our horizons.” Stephanie Merritt, The Observer
Publisher / Editor Margaret Obank
Assistant Editor Samuel Shimon
Contributing Editors Khaled Mattawa Saadi Youssef Peter Clark Fadhil al-Azzawi Issa J Boullata Mona Zaki Sinan Antoon
Consulting Editors Naguib Mahfouz Etel Adnan Roger Allen Mohammed Bennis Gamal el-Ghitani Marilyn Hacker Erdmute Heller Herbert Mason Yasir Suleiman Susannah Tarbush Sargon Boulus
Latest News: In 2006 Banipal announced the launch of a new prize for published literary translation from Arabic into English, to be awarded for the first time in 2006.
The annual prize is £2,000 and will be awarded to the translator of a published translation in English of a full-length, imaginative and creative Arabic work of literary merit published in the 35 years prior to submission of the translation.
Entries can have been published anywhere in the world but must be available for purchase in the U.K. The prize has been set up by Banipal Magazine and the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature, which was founded last year to support and celebrate the publication of Arab authors in English translation and the production of live literature events in the U.K. with Arab authors.
For more information please contact: editor@banipal.co.uk
Banipal takes its name from Ashurbanipal, last great king of Assyria and patron of the arts, whose outstanding achievement was to assemble in Nineveh, from all over his empire, the first systematically organised library in the ancient Middle East.
The thousands of clay tablets of Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian writings included the famous Mesopotamian epics of the Creation, the Flood, and Gilgamesh, many folk tales, fables, proverbs, prayers and omen texts.
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PO Box 22300
London
W13 8ZQ
United Kingdom