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Katharine Halls

Katharine Halls is translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Her work has been awarded the James Tait Black Prize for fiction and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, named finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and the EBRD Literature Prize, and longlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize.

Articles by Katharine Halls

A Brief History of Creation and Eastern Cairo by Shady Lewis, trans. by Katharine Halls
Read an excerpt from Chapter One of Shady Lewis's third novel, A Brief History of Creation and Eastern Cairo (Dar Elain, 2021), translated by Katharine Halls. The novel is set in a modest middle-class neighbourhood of the titular city, and its story unfolds over the course of a single day, against the backdrop of real-life events that took place in the 1980s. In this chapter, the narrator introduces us to his home and family members.  
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