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Patricia Sarrafian Ward
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, she lived there throughout the civil war and emigrated to the United States when she was eighteen. Ward holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, where she received numerous awards, including Hopwood Awards in Novel and Short Fiction.
Her novel The Bullet Collection (Graywolf Press, 2003), about two sisters growing up in wartime Beirut, received the GLCA New Writers Award, the Anahid Literary Award and the Hala Maksoud Award for Outstanding Emerging Writers. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, and she has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Chateau de Lavigny.
In the past few years, Ward has been exploring the field of book arts. Her miniature books and other works have been exhibited in Boston-area galleries, and she is a member of ArtSpace in Maynard, MA. Her installation “Re/Vision,” composed of book-objects made from the shreds of a rejected novel, will be on show as a Featured Artist project at the Center for Book Arts in NYC (tba 2012).
Her work can be seen at www.patriciasarrafianward.com.
Contributor's Issues
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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