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Plays<br /> |
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▪ Hakawatiyeh |
▪ Hakawatiyeh<br /> |
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▪ Between Our Lips[9] |
▪ Between Our Lips[9]<br /> |
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▪ The Details of Silence[2] |
▪ The Details of Silence[2]<br /> |
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▪ The Oklahoma Quartet[9] |
▪ The Oklahoma Quartet[9]<br /> |
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▪ The Stonecutters[9] |
▪ The Stonecutters[9]<br /> |
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▪ La Cosa Dei Sogni[9] |
▪ La Cosa Dei Sogni[9]<br /> |
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CDs |
CDs<br /> |
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▪ Traveling Rooms[7] |
▪ Traveling Rooms[7]<br /> |
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▪ Spell[7] |
▪ Spell[7]<br /> |
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Essays |
Essays<br /> |
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▪ Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile, The Progressive, May 2002.[10] |
▪ Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile, The Progressive, May 2002.[10]<br /> |
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▪ My country, my words : Reflections on a life as a writer.[3] |
▪ My country, my words : Reflections on a life as a writer.[3]<br /> |
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▪ Reflections on sex, silence and feminism.[11][12] |
▪ Reflections on sex, silence and feminism.[11][12]<br /> |
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▪ Shades of a Bridge's Breath.[13] |
▪ Shades of a Bridge's Breath.[13]<br /> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 00:14, 7 November 2009
Nathalie Handal | |
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| Born | July 29, 1969 |
| Education | Master of Philosophy(English and Drama), Master of Fine Arts(Creative Writing and Literature), Master of Arts(English), Bachelor of Arts(International Relations and Communications) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, writer and playwright |
| Website | http://www.nathaliehandal.com/ |
Nathalie Handal (Arabic: نتالي حنظل, born July 29, 1969) is an award winning French American poet, writer, playwright, editor/translator of Middle Eastern background. She was born in Haiti and was raised and has lived in Latin America, Europe, the United States and the Arab world. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies and magazines, including Ploughshares, Poetry New Zealand, Stand Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, and the Literary Review.
Life
Born in the Caribbean island nation of Haiti in 1969, Handal's family hails from the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. She has lived in France, the United Kingdom, various countries in Latin America, the Arab world and currently resides in New York City. Handal earned an MPhil in English and Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London, an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, Vermont, and a Master of Arts in English from Simmons College.
Career
Handal has published two anthologies of poems, three books of poetry, and several plays. Her stories, poems and essays have also been anthologized in several literary periodicals. She was the featured poet in the PBS NewsHour on April 2009.5][6] and was an honored finalist for the 2009 Freedom Award. The Poetry of Arab Women, an anthology edited by Handal, introduced several Arab women poets to a wider audience in the west and is used in several university classes.[1] It was an Academy of American Poets bestseller and won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.[7] Her book The Lives of Rain was shortlisted for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize[2] and received the Menada Award. She has read her poetry worldwide. She teaches at Columbia University.
Works
Poetry
▪ Love and Strange Horses (author)
▪ The Lives of Rain (author)[7]
▪ The Neverfield Poem (author)[7]
Anthologies
▪ The Poetry of Arab Women (editor)[7]
▪ Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond (editor)[7]
Plays
▪ Hakawatiyeh
▪ Between Our Lips[9]
▪ The Details of Silence[2]
▪ The Oklahoma Quartet[9]
▪ The Stonecutters[9]
▪ La Cosa Dei Sogni[9]
CDs
▪ Traveling Rooms[7]
▪ Spell[7]
Essays
▪ Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile, The Progressive, May 2002.[10]
▪ My country, my words : Reflections on a life as a writer.[3]
▪ Reflections on sex, silence and feminism.[11][12]
▪ Shades of a Bridge's Breath.[13]