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Title:Libyan fiction
Editor:Alikli, Omar AbulgasimISNI
Year:2011
Issue:40
Pages:224
Language:English
Series:Banipal (ISSN 1461-5363)
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Banipal
Geographic term:Libya
Subjects:literature
short stories (form)
literature (form)
Abstract:This issue of 'Banipal', magazine of modern Arab literature in English, celebrates Libyan literature at a historical moment of uprising and change in the Arab world, especially in Libya. Page 1 is given over to a statement by hundreds of Arab intellectuals, writers and journalists that is circulating online, a declaration of 'solidarity with the Arab peoples who have gone out into the streets to demand their legitimate rights'. With 135 pages of reading from both Libya's foremost and emerging fiction writers, introduced by Omar Abulqasim Alkikli on the Libyan short story and Ibrahim Ahmidan on the Libyan novel, the feature presents a wide range of works by 17 authors from inside and outside Libya, as well as a profile of the pioneer literary figure Ali Mustafa al-Musrati. The issue further contains an interview with Lebanese novelist Alawiya Soh, an in memoriam for Moroccan author Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917-2010), and a book review section. [ASC Leiden abstract]