Humphrey Davies Wins 2010 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize

By Susan Harris

Congratulations to our marvelous Arabic translator Humphrey Davies, winner of the 2010 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Elias Khoury's novel Yalo. Humphrey also won the inaugural Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize in 2006 for his translation of another Khoury novel, Gate of the Sun.

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