They've announced the American Literary Translators Association's National Translation Awards, and the prose winner was William M. Hutchins for his translation of Ibrahim al-Koni's New Waw: Saharan Oasis; see also the University of Texas Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Disappointingly, I have not yet seen this title -- but I've long been a big al-Koni fan (indeed, have argued that he's in the Nobel-consideration-worthy category); the only one of his titles under review at the complete review is Gold Dust.
Disappointingly, I have not yet seen this title -- but I've long been a big al-Koni fan (indeed, have argued that he's in the Nobel-consideration-worthy category); the only one of his titles under review at the complete review is Gold Dust.