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Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad
Joumana Haddad’s Invitation to a Secret Feast

Biography

Joumana Haddad was born in 1970 in Beirut, Lebanon, where she lives and works. A poet, journalist and translator, she is editor of the cultural pages of the Lebanese daily An-Nahar, and Administrator of the Arab Booker Prize. She has published five collections of poetry, including Daawa il Ashaa Sirri (Invitation to A Secret Dinner) and Aawdat Lilith (Lilith’s Return). Her books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Speaking seven languages, she has translated several works of poetry and prose into and from Arabic. Her most recent is an anthology of modern Lebanese poetry translated into Spanish and published in Spain and in various Latin American countries.

Awards

  • The Arab Press Prize (2006)
  • Joumana Haddad, Lebanese poet and author of Invitation to a Secret Feast: Selected Poems (Tupelo, 2008) has been named one of the “Beirut39,” a roster of today’s thirty-nine “most talented Arab writers under 39.” The Beirut39 writers have been chosen by a group of respected Arab writers, academics, and journalists, with nominations also solicited from publishers and literary critics across the Arab world and internationally. For more information and the full list of the thirty-nine selected Arab writers: www.beirut39.com

Links

joumanahaddad.org
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