Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Peter Thompson. From the Foreword: "Can a poem (or a book—for this is a book-length poem) be topical and at the same time make you lose your bearings? Can it refer to cu...

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Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Translated by Peter Thompson. In 1970, Nabile Farès was asked to interview James Baldwin for Jeune Afrique magazine, an experience which set in motion A PASSENGER FROM THE WEST. What begins in this book as an interview ...

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Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated by Peter Thompson. THE BELLY is Tchicaya U Tam'si's ode to Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, fighter for independence and first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo. Lumumba rose on a wav...

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Translated by Peter Thompson. This gripping first novel of the well-known Tunisian writer and performer Wafa Ghorbel won her the Prix Découverte, among the prestigious Comar d'Or prizes, when it was released in French in 2016. Now translated into mu...

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Fiction. Poetry. Translated by Peter Thompson. Introduction by Pierre Joris. DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD collects, for the first time in English, Algerian francophone writer Nabile Farès' ambitious trilogy of novellas reflecting on the effects of Frenc...

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Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated by Peter Thompson. Hmoudane—justly famous for popular novels—adds his poetry to the timely warnings of Amin Maalouf, Fouad Laroui and others, providing context to the religious totalitarianism o...

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Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the French by Peter Thompson. The death of Nabile Farès in August, 2016, was a great loss to Francophone North African letters. He worked closely with translator Peter Thompson over the years to see several o...

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Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated by Peter Thompson. English speakers can now join Africans and Africa scholars in recognizing Abdellatif Laâbi as Morocco's preeminent living poet. He is winner of France's Prix Goncourt and the ...

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