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WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will be awarded to M. Lynx Qualey, founder of ArabLit, in 2024.
On June 13th, Daniel Hahn accepted the 2023 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature at a ceremony in New York.
The Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature recognizes individuals who have taken extraordinary steps to advance international literature in English translation.
Humphrey Davies, an award-winning translator into English of some of the most important and renowned works of contemporary Arabic literature, including novels by Egyptian Nobelist Naguib Mahfouz and prominent Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, died Nov. 12 at a hospital in London. He was 74.
He introduced numerous novels, including works by the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, to English language readers.