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Samer Abu Hawwash
was born in Beirut in 1972 to a family of Palestinian refugees. Since 1991 he has published poetry and articles in various Lebanese newspapers and magazines.He graduated in 1996 from the Lebanese University of Journalism and Communication.
His first collection of poetry (in Arabic), Life is Printed in New York, was published in 1997. Since then he has published nine poetry collections, including Salute of a Gentleman, Last Selfie With a Dying World, and This is Not the Way to Make Pizza.
Since 2004 he has lived and worked in the UAE, translating American poetry and English-language fiction and non-fiction. He has translated into Arabic the poetry of more than twenty American poets, including poets such as Ai, Charles Buckowski, Langston Hughes, Kim Addonizio, Robert Bly. He has translated many contemporary English-language novels into Arabic - more than forty fiction and non-fiction works of major American writers, including Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Hanif Kureishi’s Buddha of Suburbia.
In 2009 he was chosen as one of the 39 young Arab authors of Beirut39 project, celebrating Beirut as World Book Capital 2009-2010.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 15 - /16 – Autumn 2002/Spring 2003
Banipal 30 - Autumn/Winter 2007
Banipal 65 - The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Summer 2019)
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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Banipal Book Club
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