Hamas-Israel conflicts are overshadowing the 75th Frankfurt Book Fair, which begins next week. The award ceremony for Palestinian author Adania Shibli has been called off, reports DW.
Palestinian author Adania Shibli was meant to accept the "LiBeraturpreis" of the LitProm association on October 20 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which honors women writers from the Global South for a work newly published in German.
Shibli's novel "Minor Detail" received high praise from some critics.
Its English translation, by Elisabeth Jaquette, was published in 2020 and was shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature, and long-listed for the International Booker Prize the following year.
But others criticized it harshly for what they saw as serving anti-Semitic narratives.
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