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Samer Abu Hawash

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  • Страна местожительства: Palestine
  • Пол: Male
  • Born in: 1972
  • key_age: 53
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Информация

Samer Abu Hawash is a Palestinian writer , poet, and translator, born in 1972. He has published several poetry, novels, and translations. He has published ten short story collections, the latest of which is "Atlal," published by Al-Mutawassit Publications , and two novels. He has also translated numerous American poems and English novels into Arabic .

the biography

Samer Abu Hawash was born in the city of Sidon , located in southern Lebanon , in 1972 to a Palestinian family. He studied in schools in Sidon before moving to Beirut to complete his university studies, where he studied journalism and graduated from the Lebanese University - Faculty of Information and Documentation in 1996. Since 1994, Abu Hawash has worked in Beirut's cultural press. 
He began his literary career in 1991, where he published a number of his poems in several Lebanese magazines and newspapers. He published his first poetry collection, "Life Is Printed in New York," in 1997. To date, he has published ten poetry collections. In 2005, he published his first novel, "Valentine's Day." He has also written two novels to date. Abu Hawash has translated numerous American poems and English novels into Arabic . He has translated more than twenty American poets into Arabic, including Robert Bly, Ai, Charles Bukowski, and Louise Glick. He has also translated several English novels, including "The Invention of the Dove: Portrait of an Invisible Man followed by the Book of Memory" by Paul Auster , "Bridge of Stars" by Heng Mankell, the collected stories of William Faulkner, "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, "The Smoke Tree" by Denis Johnson, "The House" by Marilynne Robinson, the collected stories of J.G. Ballard, and many others. In 2008, he published a fifteen-volume translation series of American poetry, published by Kalima, which includes works by Anne Sexton , Jack Kerouac , Billy Collins , Sylvia Plath , Charles Simic , William Faulkner , and others. 

Publications

Some of his works include:

Poetry collections

Life is Printed in New York, Dar Al-Jadeed, 1997
Greetings of the Respectable Man, a collection of poetry, 1998
Remember Valentina, a collection of poems, 2000
Journal of Illustrated Pleasures, Publications of the Lebanese Association for the Arts, 2003
A Hostel Lit by White Banners, a collection of poems, 2004
Dario Jazz Berlin, a collection of poems, 2004
Two Trees on the Roof, Mukhtarat House, 2005
I Will Kill You, Death, Al-Ghawon Cultural Foundation, 2012
Ruins, Mediterranean Publications , 2020

Novels

Valentine's Day, Al-Jamal Publications, 2005
Happiness or a Series of Explosions That Rocked the Capital, Al-Jamal Publications, 2007
Sew a Dress to Remember, The Seducers, 2010
A Last Selfie with a Dying World, Al-Jamal Publications, 2015
This Is Not How Pizza Is Made, Mediterranean Publications , 2017

Translations

The Invention of the Spinster: Portrait of an Invisible Man, followed by the Book of Memory, Mediterranean Publications , 1982
On the Road, Jamal Publications, 2007
Black Music and Other Stories. By: William Faulkner . 2009
Housekeeping. By: Marilynne Robinson. 2011. 
The Emperor's New Clothes. By Hans Christian Andersen . 2011
Snowbird and Water Leopard: Folk Tales of the Native Americans. 2014
The Book of Tea. Written by: Okakura Kakuzō. 2016
Sleeping with One Eye Open, by Mark Strand, Mediterranean Publications , 2017
Travels in the Writing Room, by Paul Auster, Mediterranean Publications , 2018
Bridge of Stars, by Heng Mankell, Al-Mona Publishing and Distribution House, 2018
My Friend Percy and His Magic Sneakers, by Ulf Stark, Al-Mona Publishing and Distribution House, 2018
A New Earth: How to Discover the Meaning of Your Life, by Eckhart Tolle, Imagination House, 2018
Sun Comes Through the Window; Waking Up a Man Spilling Coffee on His Head, by Russell Edson, Mediterranean Publications , 2019  
The Return of God: How the Global Resurgence of Religion Is Changing the World, by John Micklethwait, Mediterranean Publications , 2019
Like a wonderful friend who remembers, Al-Mutawassit Publications , 2020
Life as a Saxophone in the Mouth of Death, Mediterranean Publications , 2020
Autumn Stands Behind the Window, Richard Wright, Mediterranean Publications , 2020
Sun Comes Through the Window; Waking Up a Man Spilling Coffee on His Head, by Russell Edson, Mediterranean Publications , 2019  

 

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