This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language no......more
The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary ......more
"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world." -Adam Shatz, The New York Times Poetry from former national poe......more
A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novell......more
The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems gathers together works by a select number of Palestinian poets, over the past se......more
With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translati......more
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Dambudzo Marechera’s death on August 18, 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. In Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On ......more
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The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourou......more
The name Mihyar has no inherent meaning in Arabic, though its root letters mean to destroy, topple, demolish. Mihyar......more
Laugh-out-loud fun for animal lovers of all ages Sniff Tips, Running Sticks, and Other "Accurately" Named Animal Parts. ......more
When Petra and her dad take a birthday fishing trip, she learns about hunger and sharing as she interacts with people on......more
"Original poems by Norbert Krapf, a former poet laureate of the State of Indiana, on the joys of grandparenthood. In the......more
This selection of Hassan Najmi s poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction t......more
This collection edited by Ivor Agyeman-Duah is an important and timely publication that brings together bright voices co......more
This important book documents stimulating and engaging reflections and thoughts from international writers and commentat......more
A Map of Signs and Scents is a collection of sixty poems by an acclaimed poet whose life and work span Middle Eastern a......more
Nestled on the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, the city of Khartoum has, for two centuries, been a focal point f......more
Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa s major living authors, publ......more
BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE AND THE WINNER OF THE ......more
Faulkner and Warren is a collection of literary criticism from the 2012 Faulkner/Warren Conference at Southeast Missouri......more
Mirrors of Absence taps into three under-examined subjects: issues concerning how the poet survives under tyrannical reg......more
The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nigh......more
A hilarious and politically-incisive rendering of Said Ahmed Mohamed s singular, widely-read Swahili play, which has bee......more
A stirring collection of recent work by a leading poet of the Arab world, superbly translated for English-language reade......more
The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet workin......more
Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award "What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of......more
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A Fine Madness is a masterful work giving an insider s perspective on the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo an......more
Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Semb ne. Th......more
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This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish s last volume to co......more
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A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature Coming at a time when Africa and African writ......more
In this stunning collectionthe first since the American invasionIraqis themselves vividly depict the bombing of Baghdad,......more
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial inju......more
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese American of Assyrian descent, an artist, poet and writer. He was born Gibran Kh......more
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This new edition gives an insight into Ken Saro-Wiwa s ideology, his own record of arrest in July 1993 and imprisonment,......more
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This Iraq will reach the ends of the graveyard. It will bury its sons in open country generation after generation, and i......more
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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.......more
These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa......more
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This drama was first performed as part of the Nigerian Independence Celebrations....more