Media News - Thursday, November 22, 2007
Translation project to bring cream of foreign writers to Arabs
Books by Stephen Hawking, Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami and other star writers past and present have been chosen as the first works to be translated into Arabic, in a major initiative to widen access to foreign literature. The Abu Dhabi-based project, Kalima (‘word’ in Arabic), aims to publish 100 books in its first year and 500 titles a year by 2010, it announced Wednesday. The first 100 are from 16 languages, including Greek, Japanese, Swedish, Czech, Russian, Chinese, Yiddish, Italian, Norwegian, Latin and ancient Greek. Half the candidate titles are English. Four years ago the UN's Arab human development report identified a lack of translated foreign works as an issue restricting Arab intellectual life. (Gulf News)
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