A summons to history: Radwa Ashour's Andalusia and its afterlife

The first complete English translation of Radwa Ashour’s acclaimed Granada trilogy, by Kay Heikkinen, brings all three books to new readers, commemorating the author a decade after her death and featuring a foreword by Marina Warner.

Granada, one of the top 100 novels of the 20th century according to the Arab Writers Union, is now available in a new, complete translation by award-winning translator Kay Heikkinen. The complete edition brings the Granada trilogy's Books 2 and 3 into English for the first time. This epic work, which takes place in 16th-century Granada and spans more than a century, tackles issues such as cultural erasure and religious intolerance. 

This version honours Radwa Ashour's memory on the 10-year anniversary of her death and includes a new foreword by Marina Warner.

About the author

Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) is a highly acclaimed Egyptian writer and scholar. She is the author of more than fifteen works of fiction, memoir, and criticism, including Granada (AUC Press, 2008) and The Woman from Tantoura (AUC Press, 2014), and was a recipient of the Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature and the prestigious Owais Prize for Fiction.

In conversation with

• Marina Warner, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, and a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and author of the book's foreword.
• Karoline Cook, Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
• Tamim al-Barghouti, Palestinian-Egyptian poet, columnist, political scientist, holds a PhD in political science from Boston University, and the son of the late Radwa Ashour

Introduced and sponsored by Wen-Chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS University of London

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