Ghassan Zaqtan

Describing the Past

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When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of river Jordan. That camp – a centre of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Israel razed the camp following the Battle of Karameh in 1968 – is the setting for Zaqtan's first prose work to appear in English. This novella is a coming-of-age story, a tale of youth set amid the death and chaos of war and violence. It is an elegy for the loss of a childhood friend, and for childhood itself, brought back to life here as if dreams and memories have merged into a new state, an altered consciousness and way of being in and remembering the world.

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Ghassan Zaqtan is a Palestinian poet, novelist, editor and playwright. His book Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2013. He has been twice nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, perceived as the American Nobel Prize. Zaqtan was awarded the National Medal of Honor by the Palestinian president in June 2013 in recognition of his achievement and contribution to Arabic and Palestinian literature. He has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2014 Fellowship for Creative Arts in the Field of Poetry. His works have been translated to English, French, Italian, Norwegian, German and other languages.

Samuel Wilder is a translator of Arabic Literature, a writer and a student of comparative poetics. Since 2006, he has lived and worked as a literary translator in Cairo and Beirut, and pursued academic work in London and Cambridge. While a student at Brown University in 2005, he was awarded the Lucius Lyon Prize for poetry translation for his versions of two of Horace's Odes. He is currently a PhD candidate in Arabic studies at Cambridge University.

Preis: CHF 24.90
Sprache: Englisch (aus dem Arabischen von Samuel Wilder)
Art: Gebundenes Buch
Erschienen: 2016 (1995)
Verlag: Seagull Books
ISBN: 978-0-85742-349-8
Masse: 84 S.

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