Banipal Magazine - Issue 27 Sarah Maguire

Banipal Magazine - Issue 27 Sarah MaguireFarewell, Naguib Mahfouz! The issue opens with tributes to the writer of the world, the late Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, by Banipals editor and contributing editors Roger Allen and Peter Clark. Further on in the issue, the well known Iraqi author Jalil al Qaisi is remembered by Fadhil al Azzawi. Fourteen fiction writers dominate this issue, among them ten women authors. Basra is the setting for two disturbing but gripping stories by Iraqi author

• Sexual propaganda

fresh and unique fiction and poetry from around the world

"A good translation suggests how the poet

the movement of peoples

James Kirkup: introduction and excerpt from the novel

Paul Howard: Versions of four sonnets by Giuseppe Belli

a short story translated by Stefan Tobler

and he kissed my hand before he left

The bulldozer retreats a few yards

“A gleam of genius

like the Eliot of his title

Actually he was already 18 years old at the time