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Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Its First Translation Grant of 2021 The Syrian author Khalil Sweileh’s ‘Remorse Test,’ winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Literature, is to be translated into Ukrainian by Nora-Druk Publishers. Syrian novelist, poet, and journalist Khalil Sweileh. Image: Sheikh Zayed Book Award Ninth Translation Supported by a Zayed Award Grant The first announced translation grant of a Sheikh Zayed Book Award winning title this year goes to the Ukrainian publishing house Nora-Druk. Translator Oksana Prokhorovych is assigned to make the Ukrainian translation ...

This essay is part of a series on shifting narratives in Syrian literature, guest edited by Syrian novelist Rosa Yassin Hassan. Read this essay in Arabic here.  In the past two decades, the Syrian novel has witnessed serious attempts to renew its narrative techniques. In fact, this change in artistic taste, or perhaps in writers’ and recipients’ perspectives on society, might have been a fundamental factor that altered the face of literary production and reception during this period.  Several reasons might have caused this change: the Arab renaissance projects that were cut off and tran...