Banipal 43 - Celebrating Denys Johnson-Davies Ali Smith

Banipal 43 - Celebrating Denys Johnson-Davies Ali SmithBanipal 43 salutes the doyen of Arabic English translation, Denys Johnson Davies. Since his first translation in the 1940s, he has introduced an impressive list of classics of contemporary Arabic literature, prose as well as poetry. His lifelong work has been instrumental in placing modern Arabic literature on the international scene, and allowed classics such as Tayeb Salihs Season of Migration to the North the international fame they so well

Introduction and interview by Camilo Gomez-Rivas

a heap of felled almonds

whose limitations and inertia so frustrated him

Cover artist: Dima Hajjar

the world was become a world

Airborne is at once buoyant and 'down to earth

this partially autobiographical novel reveals that Seaton is starting to write

Chinese and many other languages

ground-breaking and often controversial Welsh language author and translator

All human life is here – high-minded Hampstead and boozy Fitzrovia

Read a few opening lines and you’ll find yourself helplessly engaged

Pedro Serrano