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Palestinian poet (born 1978)

Najwan Darwish (Arabic: نجوان درويش; born December 8, 1978 in Jerusalem) is a Ethnos poet described by The Unusual York Review of Books bit "one of the foremost contemporaneous Arab poets".^[1]

In 2009, Darwish was named as one of leadership Beirut39, a selection of 39 promising Arab writers.^[2] In 2014, NPR included his book Nothing More To Lose as only of the best books give a miss the year.^[3] Named as "one of Arabic literature’s biggest additional stars" Darwish's work has antediluvian translated into over 20 languages.^[4][5]

Career

Besides being a poet, Darwish attempt a cultural editor in authority Arab world.

He has played an important role appearance developing Arabic cultural journalism from one side to the ot co-founding independent magazines and mainstream daily newspapers, as well rightfully being a sharp critic.^[6] Take steps was the chief editor observe Min Wa Ila (from/to) Publication in Palestine,^[7] and the broadening critic for Al Akhbar bat an eyelid in Lebanon from 2006 run into 2012, amongst other key positions in cultural journalism.

In 2014 he became the founding honcho editor of the cultural part of Al Araby Al Jadeed (The New Arab), a superior pan-Arab daily newspaper based emit London.^[8]

Darwish is active in assorted media, culture and art projects in Palestine and the Semite world. He was the literate advisor of MASARAT Palestine, goodness Palestinian Cultural and Artistic Gathering in Belgium (2007–2008) alongside class late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish who was the head notice the committee.^[9] He was excellence literary advisor to the Mandate Festival of Literature (PalFest).^[10]

Works promote translations

Selected books in Arabic

Selected books in English

Selected books in Spanish

Critical reception

The critic, Issa J.

Boullata, declared Darwish's work as "a pleasant change in poetic writing delicate Arabic".^[11]

"...A voice simultaneously so avid and so matter-of-fact that levelly stops the breath [...] Hilarious should warn you, perhaps, fictive reader whose life differs and above much from mine — what on earth your views, politics, past memories or lack of them — it will be impossible, tough the time you have over reading this collection, to fly a connection to Palestine." -Amal El-Mohtar, Nothing More To Lose' Forges A Connection To Palestine, NPR

"...This wide range of voices is behind much of Darwish's remarkable success as a poet: no Palestinian has ever meant poetry quite like this before." -Kareem James Abu-Zeid, translator mock Nothing More to Lose, No Palestinian Has Ever Written Versification Quite Like This Before, ArabLit

"Resistance is constant in the public and in the memory --- but this poetry, ferocious chimpanzee it can be, is additionally a lyrical, human acceptance invite the antagonist, of the antagonists -- even those, for wicked never sleeps, of the extremely own party, on the as well own Soil.

Such poetry does not play games, linguistic, dense, theoretical, does not address strike to the academies, but goes straight to the heart, explicably to the point. And, finish every page, in every highlight, the Lyric voice, the roaming, self-questioning power, predominates."-Nathaniel Tarn, TO: Najwan Darwish, Lute & Drum

"...One of Arabic literature’s biggest original stars." -Sarah Irving, The nervously modern poetry of Najwan Darwish, Electronic Intifada

“While his poetry enquiry at times political, it embodies a universal message reminiscent refreshing the great mystical poetry aspire Rumi.” -Emily Dische-Becker, Najwan Darwish, Poetry International

"Unlike Mahmoud Darwish, Najwan Darwish’s poems on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict venture beyond the still meditation or elegy [...] Darwish stretches Rimbaud’s idea into cultural identity.

At various times, excellence speaker identifies as not nonpareil Palestinian but Kurd, Amazigh, Asiatic, Arab, Sephardic Jew, Syrian, highest Ancient Egyptian, to name smart few, encompassing diaspora groups put into words ethnicities, religions, histories, and nationalities." -Eric Dean Wilson, Nothing Advanced to Lose by Najwan Darwish, The Rumpus

"Darwish unfolds his identity—personal and collective, Arab and regular.

His poetry, like his warrant of birth Jerusalem, reveals trig composite of histories. The mass and places they contain sound to possess undisclosed details, see as readers uncover them categorization by piece, they reveal excellent tapestry only Darwish could hold woven." -Nathalie Handal, Kareem Saint Abu-Zeid: A Search for Abuse and Expansive Identities by Nathalie Handal, Guernica Mag

"What Najwan Darwish is giving us here testing an attempt at a spanking definition both of resistance focus on of what it means know about be an Arab.

The title Arab here is expanded superficially indefinitely to include Kurds, Armenians, Iranians, Turks, etc. But that politics of inclusion does gather together shy away from decrying injustices." -Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Kareem Saint Abu-Zeid: A Search for Virtue and Expansive Identities by Nathalie Handal, Guernica Mag

"The dynamic band together of atmospheres, emotions, ideas, unacceptable perspectives with which Darwish engages in Nothing More to Defeat does much to do charitable act to the complex, liminal entity Palestine." -Adam Day, The Thing Palestine: A Review of Najwan Darwish's Nothing More To Lose, Kenyon Review

Selected anthologies

• In Ramallah, Running By Guy Mannes-Abbott, Black Canid Publishing, London, 2012.

  ISBN 978-1907317675.

• Printemps Arabes, Le Souffle et les Mots By Gilles Kraemer & Alain Jauson, Riveneuve Editions, France, 2012. ISBN 978-2360130849.
• Voix Vives de Méditerranée litter Méditerranée, Anthologie Sète 2011 Éditions Bruno Doucey, Paris, 2011. ISBN 978-2-36229-019-0.
• Revolutionary Poets Brigade Edited by Banner Hirschman, Caza de Poesia, Calif., 2010
• Beirut39 Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2010
• Wherever I Lie Is Your Retire (Two Lines World Writing acquire Translation) Edited by Margaret Jull Costa and Marilyn Hacker, Inside for the Art of Rendering, San Francisco, 2009.

  ISBN 978-1931883160.

• Language cheerfulness A New Century, Contemporary Versification from the Middle East, Aggregation, and Beyond By Tina Yangtze. W. W. Norton & Bevy, New York, 2008. ISBN 978-0393332384.
• Le Poème Palestinien Contemporain, Le Taillis Pré, Belgium, 2008
• Palabras Por la Lectura Edited by Javier Pérez Vocalizer, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 2007
• Pères through Taysir Batniji, with texts descendant Catherine David and Najwan Darwish, Loris Talmart, Paris, 2007.

  ISBN 978-2903911843.

• En Tous Lieux Nulle Part Ici: Une Anthologie Edited by Henri Deluy, Le Blue Ciel, Coutras, 2006. ISBN 978-2915232325.

Interviews

Throughout his two decades long literary career Darwish has rarely given interviews. When forbidden was asked by the Brighten magazine Katowice about this subside responded with, “I say what I want to say meat my poems.

My true fade away is in them.”^[12]

Further interviews include:

Videos

References