Basma Abdel Aziz – Speculative Fiction in Translation

The Best Translated Book Award Longlist

By Rachel CordascoMarch 29, 2017newsArabic, Basma Abdel Aziz, Cuba, David Frye, Dominican Republic, Elisabeth Jaquette, Jessica Powell, New Directions, Pedro Cabiya, Spanish, Susan Bernofsky, Yoko Tawada, Yoss

This year’s Best Translated Book Award longlist includes four works of speculative fiction in translation! Here’s the entire list: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, from Melville House Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky, from New

REVIEW: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz

translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Melville House May 24, 2016 224 pages grab a copy There aren’t any starships or spirits in The Queue; no mutant alien viruses or Martian colonies, either. And yet, it is speculative fiction, because Basma Abdel Aziz has taken the reality of Egypt’s oppressive security apparatus and its impact on

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The Best Translated Book Award Longlist

REVIEW: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz