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Hassan Najmi
Hassan Najmi was born in 1960 in Ibn Ahme, Morocco. He has a diploma in Arabic Literature from Rabat College of Literature and Humanities, and has become a well-known poet, author and journalist.
He worked for many years as arts editor of Al-Ittihad al-Ishtiraki newspaper, and was President of the Moroccan Union of Writers from 1998 to 2005 and was for some years director-general of the Book and Publications Department of Morocco's Ministry of Culture. He was a founding member of the House of Poetry in Morocco in 1996.
In 1977, he started publishing his poems in various newspapers. His first poetry collection was Lavenders’ Princedom (1982) and has been followed by nine further collections and two novels and two books of essays, one with the artist Kacimi.
He has two works in English translation, a novel Gertrude (trs Roger Allen, 2013) and a poetry collection The Blueness of the Evening: Selected Poems of Hassan Najmi (trs Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, 2018).
A chapter from Gertrude, translated by Nancy Roberts, was published in Banipal 43 – Celebrating Denys Johnson-Davies (2012), and can be read here.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 35 - Writing in Dutch (2009)
Banipal 43 - Celebrating Denys Johnson-Davies (2012)
Banipal 51 - Celebrating Saadi Youssef (2014)
Banipal 74 - Celebrating Khalida Said and Modern Arabic Poetry (Summer 2022)
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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