Title: فرانكشتاين في بغداد

Title: Title Record # 2210922
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Date: 2013-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: Arabic

Note: Copyright page of the Penguin tp edition states "First published in Arabic by Al Kamel, 2013."

Synopsis: "A body is formed by sewing body parts of killed human beings and sets out for revenge. Set in Baghdad, this is a wartime spin on the story of Frankenstein." (Source: WorldCat)

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2015^ⓘTranslated by Barbara Teresi.	Italian	Frankenstein a Baghdad [as by Ahmed Saadawi]
2016^ⓘTranslated by France Meyer	French	Frankenstein à Bagdad [as by Ahmed Saadawi]
2018^ⓘTranslated by Jonathan Wright. Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018.	English	Frankenstein in Baghdad [as by Ahmed Saadawi]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win (as Frankenstein à Bagdad)	2017 Imaginaire	Roman étranger
Nomination ^ⓘNomination is for the translator, France Meyer (as Frankenstein à Bagdad)	2017 Imaginaire	Traduction
Preliminary Nominees (as Frankenstein in Baghdad)	2018 Stoker	Superior Achievement in a Novel
Win (as Frankenstein in Baghdad)	2019 Kitschies	Golden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel)
12 (as Frankenstein in Baghdad)	2019 Locus	Best Fantasy Novel
Finalists (as Frankenstein in Baghdad)	2019 Clarke	Best Science Fiction Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
فرانكشتاين في بغداد^?Fraankishtaayn fii Baghdaad	2013-00-00	أحمد سعداوي^?'ahmad sedawy	منشورات الجمل	978-9933-35-001-7		352	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

Review [French] by Bertrand Bonnet (2017) in Bifrost, #85
Review [English] by Terence Taylor (2018) in Nightmare Magazine, February 2018
Review [English] by Ian Mond (2018) in Locus, #689 June 2018
Review [English] by Don Sakers (2018) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2018
Review [English] by Sessily Watt (2019) in Strange Horizons, 28 January 2019
Review [English] by John Schwartz (writer) (2019) in The New York Times Book Review, March 17, 2019
Review [English] by Maggie Clark [as by M. L. Clark] (2019) in Strange Horizons, 15 July 2019