Itzea Goikolea-Amiano is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow working on the Multilingual Locals, Significant Geographies (MULOSIGE) project.
Spanish and European Poetry
Al-Motamid and Ketama also published Spanish and European avant-garde poetry. From 1953 on, the Arabic section of Al-Motamid entitled “Biographies of the well-known twentieth-century Spanish Poets” provided the same kind of short biography and translated poetry as the anthologies of Arab authors.
Two excerpts of the section “Biographies of the well-known twentieth-century Spanish Poets”
The first poet of this Arabic section of Al-Motamid was Miguel Hernández (Orihuela 1910 – Alicante 1942), one of the greatest twentieth-century Spanish poets; the second was Juan Ramón Jiménez (Moguer 1881 – San Juan de Puerto Rico 1958); and the third one was Vicente Aleixandre (Sevilla 1898 – Madrid 1984). Jiménez had won the Nobel Prize in 1956, while Aleixandre did so in 1977.
Read the English translation, ‘Elegy’, here
Read the English translation here.
The poems were published in the original Italian, in the Spanish translation (with no acknowledged translator) and in the Arabic translation by ‘Abd al-Latif al-Khati. Read the English translations of the Arabic and the Spanish poems, with an accompanying commentary by the translator Jack Clift
The poems were published in the original Catalan, in Spanish translation by Rafael Santos Torroella, and in Arabic translation by ‘Abd al-Latif al-Khatib. Read the English translations of the Arabic and the Spanish poems, with an accompanying commentary by the translator Jack Clift here.