Samar Yazbek's "Where the wind calls home" is longlisted to the National Book Award 2024
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September 11, 2024

Samar Yazbek's "Where the wind calls home" is longlisted to the National Book Award 2024

Samar Yazbek’s “Where the wind calls home” (or The wind’s abode) was longlisted to the National Book Award on September 10, 2024!Amongst the 10 longlisted authors, Samar Yazbek is the…

Japanese praise of Yazbek's "Planet of clay" (or Blue pen), in the influential Shukan Kinyobi magazine
Press
August 13, 2024
Japanese praise of Yazbek's "Planet of clay" (or Blue pen), in the influential Shukan Kinyobi magazine

Kai Nagase reviews “Planet of Clay” (The blue pen) by Samar Yazbek for Shukan Kinyobi,…

The wind's abode
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The wind's abode

Ali, a 19 year old soldier in the Syrian army, is laying on the ground…

"Perhaps the most beautiful novel that we can read by Samar Yazbek to date" - Le Monde, Richard Jacquemond's review of Yazbek's "The wind's abode":
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January 27, 2023
"Perhaps the most beautiful novel that we can read by Samar Yazbek to date" - Le Monde, Richard Jacquemond's review of Yazbek's "The wind's abode":

A review by Richard Jacquemond, for Le Monde des Livres, January 26th, 2023   [pullquote]Through…

"I love the world in Arabic": Samar Yazbek and her translator Leri Price interviewed by Alex Tan, Asymptote
Interviews
March 27, 2024
"I love the world in Arabic": Samar Yazbek and her translator Leri Price interviewed by Alex Tan, Asymptote

Asymptote, March 21, 2024 Samar Yazbek’s Where the Wind Calls Home is a poetic rumination that shifts…