Kareem Abdulrahman about challenges in Translating Kurdish Literature (Kurdish)

Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a nation-state of their own.  The Kurds live in a geo-political area called "Kurdistan", the land of the Kurds, which straddles four different countries in today's Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria.

Today’s Guest is Kareem Abdulrahman. Kareem Abdulrahman is a translator and Kurdish affairs analyst. From 2006 to 2014, he worked as a Kurdish media and political analyst for the BBC, where translation was part of his job. In 2013, he was awarded a place in the British Centre for Literary Translation’s prestigious mentorship programme. He translated prominent Iraqi Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali's I Stared at the Night of the City into English (UK; Periscope; 2016), making it the first Kurdish novel to be translated into English. He is also the Head of Editorial at Insight Iraq, a political analysis service focusing on Iraq and Kurdish affairs. He lives in London. His recent translation, ‘The Last Pomegranate Tree’, also by Bachtyar Ali, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

'The Last Pomegranate Tree' is published by Archipelago Books.

In this conversation, he spoke about Kurdistan, Its Literature, Author Bhachtyar Ali, and translations of Ali’s Work into English. 

To buy the book -

https://www.amazon.in/Last-Pomegranate-Ali-Bachtyar/dp/1953861407

https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-last-pomegranate-tree-2/

To know more about the Author -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachtyar_Ali

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