{"id":1700,"date":"2017-02-12T02:42:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2017-02-12T02:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:45:29","slug":"1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant- This Land That Is Like You by Tobie Nathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/penamerica.png\" alt=\"penamerica\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/penamerica.png 225w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/penamerica-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/>Among the recipients of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/announcing-2017-penheim-translation-fund-grants\/\">2017 PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grants <\/a><\/span>this year is Joyce Zonana &#8220;for her translation of <em>This Land That Is Like You<\/em> by Tobie Nathan, a novel set in the Jewish quarter of Cairo in the early part of the twentieth century. Written in French by an Egyptian-born ethno-psychiatrist, diplomat, and writer, this work explores the mystical and fantastical elements of Jewish and Arab Egyptians. (Available for publication.).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt- sounds intriguing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although Esther returned to the human world, she came back from her adventure among the demons with strange ways. People called her \u201ctopsy-turvy\u201d; they claimed that the <i>afrit<\/i>, that devil composed of the Nile\u2019s silt who had possessed her since her fall, had turned her inside out like a sock to be mended. Her behavior was the inverse of a young girl\u2019s. \u00a0She swore like a water-seller, reeling off strings of nasty words and insulting grownups in the streets, even the men in her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the recipients of the 2017 PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grants this year is Joyce Zonana &#8220;for her translation of This Land That Is Like You by Tobie Nathan, a novel set in the Jewish quarter of Cairo in the early part of the twentieth century. Written in French by an Egyptian-born ethno-psychiatrist, diplomat, and writer,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1700\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[120,135,279,278,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}