FACULTY NEWS | August 28, 2018
David Larsen’s translation of the Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh has won the 2018 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. It is the first time a text from the Islamic world has received the honor. “While the primary text may appear almost unlikely,” writes judge Ammiel Alcalay,” Larsen’s construction of the apparatus in which it is embedded is an act of both deep scholarship and innovative poetics that, like the fate of the lion itself, is a tale of survival.”