{"id":214385,"date":"2019-05-22T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=214385"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:30:46","slug":"omani-writer-wins-man-booker-international-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/omani-writer-wins-man-booker-international-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Omani writer wins Man Booker International Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Omani writer Jokha Alharthi\u2019s novel <em>Celestial Bodies<\/em> is the first book originally written in Arabic to win the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/themanbookerprize.com\/international\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Man Booker International Prize<\/a><\/em>, an accolade intended for original fiction works translated into English and published in the United Kingdom. Out through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sandstonepress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandstone Press<\/a>, , the book was translated into English by Marylin Booth, of the United States, who teaches Arabic literature at Oxford, UK. The prize ceremony took place Tuesday (21) in London. <em>Pictured above are Alharthi (R)and e Booth (L)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214378\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Jokha-al-Harthi-Celestial-Bodies.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-214378 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Jokha-al-Harthi-Celestial-Bodies-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Jokha-al-Harthi-Celestial-Bodies-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Jokha-al-Harthi-Celestial-Bodies.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book&#8217;s cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Celestial Bodies<\/em> tells the story of three sisters living in the village of Al-Awafi, of the changes in post-colonial Oman, and of duty, freedom and love.<\/p>\n<p>Alharthi became the first person of Arab background to win the prize. She is the author of two collections of fictional tales, one children\u2019s book and three novels in Arabic. Alharthi studied Arabic poetry at the University of Edinburgh and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University, in Muscat, Oman.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a3 50,000 cash prize (USD 63,300) gets split 50-50 between the writer and the translator.<\/p>\n<p>The Man Booker International Prize was first awarded in 2005. It went from biennial to annual in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-214377\">Isabel Infantes\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-214378\">Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Celestial Bodies,\u2019 a novel by Jokha Alharthi, is the first book originally written in Arabic to win the British literature award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":214377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[2093,8719,8718,8715,8721,2030,8720,35130,6313,4759],"class_list":{"0":"post-214385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-book","9":"tag-celestial-bodies","10":"tag-jokha-alharthi","11":"tag-man-booker-international-prize","12":"tag-novel","13":"tag-oman","14":"tag-omani","15":"tag-traducao-en","16":"tag-translation","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"wps_subtitle":" \u2018Celestial Bodies,\u2019 a novel by Jokha Alharthi, is the first book originally written in Arabic to win the British literature award. 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