Elias Khoury, The Novelist

Banipal 67 - Elias Khoury, The Novelist presents a major feature on the celebrated Lebanese and international author, with excerpts from his latest novel Stella Maris, the second in the Children of the Ghetto trilogy, and a chapter from his first novel (until now not translated), plus in-depth articles on the corpus of novels including translations of his works into Hebrew, and reviews of his early novels. * We bid Adieu to poet Amjad Nasser in Fakhri Saleh's essay on his poetry collections. * We introduce two winners of the Moroccan Argana International Poetry Prize - Wadih Saadeh and Hawad. * Also featured are the six shortlisted novels of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. * Plus works by two well-known Iraqi writers: Muhammad Khudayyir and Muhsin al-Musawi - and poems by three young poets from Lebanon, Palestine and Tunisia. MANY THANKS to all our contributors, authors, translators, and editors, who have been working from home under coronavirus restrictions.