Banipal 35 – Writing in Dutch Fady Joudah

Banipal 35 – Writing in Dutch Fady JoudahBanipal 35 presents ten talented authors who live in the Netherlands and Belgium and write in Dutch, and whose origins are in Morocco, Palestine and Iraq. All ten, explains guest editor Victor Schiferli in his introduction, are making important contributions, their new and energetic voices having enriched and broken the mould of Dutch literature, taking up themes that had never before been explored. Featured authors include Ramsey Nasr, the new Poet

to flutter round the lamp

Steven Blyth

Recently elected a corresponding member of the Walloon Dialect Academy himself

The Opacity of Strangeness

Praise for Penny Simpson:

seven volumes of poetry and two volumes of autobiography

While each does so in a unique way

Salima Saleh: Short stories The Wheat Watchmen and The Enemy

He has worked as a journalist since he was sixteen – with the Arab press

Knights of the Lower Floors

translator and author Paul Chaoul

Leila Marouane: Excerpt from the novel The Abductor