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Trino Cruz
Trino Cruz, born in Gibraltar in 1960, is a bilingual writer and translator. He grew up in the Straits region, between Gibraltar, Morocco and Spain, an upbriging which has deeply influenced his personal vision of the Mediterrranean as an inexhaustible crossroads connecting with even the most remote corners of our planet and memory.
After pursuing his studies in Marine Biology and Medical Research at the Universities of Liverpool and London, Trino embarked on a career in the financial industry for over 30 years before dedicating himself fully to writing and other cultural activities.
His writing arises from the periphery of a fertile shore and is driven by a deep conviction that barriers in culture must be overcome by fostering a dynamics of exchange and collaboration between communities, wherever they may be. The underlying common ground needs to be uncovered and enriched each and every day, lest we allow other forces to pull us apart.
He is currently involved in a number of regional cultural initiatives, and is on the editorial board of SureS, a literary journal published in Tangier (Morocco) and revista Banipal, the Spanish edition of this journal.
He has published several collections of poetry including Lecturas del espacio profanado (1992) and Rihla (2003). Memoria del Polizón, a comprehensive collection of his writings to date in Spanish will be published soon. He has collaborated in numerous translations of Arabic and French poetry to Spanish. He has read his poetry in venues and poetry festivals in Spain, Morocco and South America.
He was the Guest Writer in Banipal 70 (Spring 2021), with selected poems from A Fertile Shore.
He reviewed Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi, translated by Raphael Cohen (Banipal Books, September 2021) in Banipal 72 – Iraqi Jewish Writers, and In Banipal 71 (Summer 2021) he reviewed Exhausted on the Cross: Poems by Najwan Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem (Spring 2021)
Banipal 72 - Iraqi Jewish Writers (Autumn-Winter 2021)
Banipal 71 - Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (Summer 2021)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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