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Bernard Noël
is an internationally renowned poet and essayist, publishing more than 60 titles.
He was born in Sainte-Genevieve-sur-Argence/Aveyron in France in 1930 and studied Journalism in the early 1950s, but his heart was in literature. He was fascinated by the literature engagé of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus as much as the radicalism of Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud.
His first volume of poetry, Les yeux chimères, was published in 1953. Five years later, Extraits du corps (1958), a collection of prose poems, appeared, and then in 1969, Le Château de Cène (The Castle of Communion) – under the pseudonym Urbain d’Orlhac. Intended as an allegory of brutal experiences in the Algerian War the novel caused a sensation, resulting in its censorship and a lawsuit about the circulation of obscene writing.
Among his latest collections of poetry are Le Sillon des sens (2005), and La Vie en désordre (2005). His published works also include: La face de silence (1967), A vif enfin la nuit (1968), Le Dictionnaire de la Commune (1971), Treize cases du je (1975), L’Outrage aux mots (1975), Lecture du chilom (1977), Une messe blanche, 1977), Le 19 octobre 1977 (1979), Le Château de Hors (1979), D’une main obscure (1980), Bruits de langues (1980), L’été langue morte (1982), La moitié du geste (1982), Poèmes 1 (1983), La chute des temps (1983), L’enfer (dit-on… (1983), Fables pour ne pas (1985), La rencontre avec Tatarka (1986), La rumeur de l’air (1986), Journal du regard (1988), Onze romans d'oeil (1988), Portrait du monde (1988), La Reconstitution (1988), Les premiers mots (1990), Le Château de Cène (1992), La Chute des temps (1993), L'Ombre du double (1993), Le Syndrome de Gramsci (1994), La Castration mentale (1994), La Maladie de la chair (1995), L’Espace du désir (1995), Le Reste du voyage (1997), Le tu et le silence (1998), Treize cases du je (1998), Magritte (1998), La Langue d'Anna (1998), La Maladie du sens (2001 (Le roman d’Adam et Eve (2001), La Face de silence (2002), Romans d'un regard (2003), Le Retour de Sade (2004), Les Yeux dans la couleur (2004), Un trajet en hiver (2004).
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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
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Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
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Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
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Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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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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