2024 Ottaway Award Ceremony: Marcia Lynx Qualey

Tune into this recording of our Ottaway Award Ceremony. Featuring a laudation by translator and writer Yasmine Seale, followed by remarks by award winner Marcia Lynx Qualey.
“Marcia Lynx Qualey, and the wide network she has fostered through ArabLit, has had a huge impact on the amount and range of Arabic literature available in English today,” said WWB’s board chair, Samantha Schnee. “We applaud her heroic efforts to bring greater exposure to today’s Arabic writers while cultivating emerging translators and critics.”
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Marcia Lynx Qualey is an editor, writer, occasional translator, and speaker who focuses on Arabic literature and translation. She has a special love of Arabic literature for young readers. She founded ArabLit (which won a “Literary Translation Initiative” award at the 2017 London Book Fair) in 2009 and has since helped it become a small publishing cooperative. READ LESSShe reviews for various magazines and newspapers and has translated a handful of novels, including the Palestine Book Award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, by Sonia Nimr, and Haya Saleh’s Wild Poppies, shortlisted for this year’s GLLI Award. She was shortlisted for the Banipal prize for the first two novels in Sonia’s Thunderbird trilogy. She is also a cofounder of the “WorldKidLit” initiative and cohosts the BULAQ podcast, which explores literature of the Maghreb and Mashreq. She is currently working on a collaboration with Majalla 28 in Gaza and demands an end to genocide.
Yasmine Seale is a writer and translator. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton) and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She lives between Paris and New York, where she teaches at Columbia University.

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impossible to hear! 😢