Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) is the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world, the author of thirty volumes of poetry and eight books of prose that are indisputable testimony to the catastrophe endured by the Palestinian people and to the anguish of dispossession. He received numerous international awards, including being appointed a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. A former member of the PLO’s Executive Council and Poet Laureate of Palestine, he helped draft the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence. Upon his death following heart surgery, Darwish was granted a state funeral and is buried in Ramallah.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Two Poems, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009