Fady Joudah Wins PEN USA Translation Prize

By Susan Harris

We're delighted to report that poet and WWB contributor Fady Joudah has won the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation for his splendid rendering of Mahmoud Darwish's If I Were Another. WWB published the long poem The Tragedy of Narcissus The Comedy of Silver in our October 2009 issue.

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