This book is part of the Mahmoud Darwish series of poetry and prose books. This is the first edition by The Mahmoud Darwish Foundation, Al Ahlia, and Dar Al Nasher published in 2013. The series features an attractive design, excellent finish, and easy to read colors and fonts.
賲丨賲賵丿 丿乇賵賷卮 Mahmoud Darwish was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.
The Lotus Prize (1969; from the Union of Afro-Asian Writers) Lenin Peace Prize (1983; from the USSR) The Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (1993; from France) The Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom (2001) Prince Claus Awards (2004) "Bosnian ste膰ak" (2007) Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings (2007) The International Forum for Arabic Poetry prize (2007)
Tras una juventud dentro de la Palestina ocupada, a帽os salpicados por numerosos arestos, se traslad贸 a Egipto y despu茅s al L铆bano para realizar su sue帽o de renovaci贸n po茅tica. Ser谩 en su exilio en Paris, tras tener que abandonar forzosamente el L铆bano, donde logre su madurez po茅tico y logre un reconocimiento ante los ojos occidentales.
En 1996, tras los acuerdos de Oslo para la autonom铆a de los territorios de Gaza y Cisjordania, dimite como ministro de Cultura de la Organizaci贸n para la Liberaci贸n de Palestina y regresa a Ramallah. All铆 dirige la revista literaria Al Karmel, cuytos archivos fueron destruidos por el ej茅rcito israel铆 durante el asedio a la ciudad en el a帽o 2002.
If ever I can say anything to Mahmoud Darwish whenever I read something for him, he has already written, for someone else of course, but as if he wrote it for us to gift it back to him. I couldn't let it go for a week, even though it was only sixty pages, but It slept next to me under the covers, and went with me through numbers of transportation to my work, early as I always do, I wanted to drown in its thin pages, and wake up with its words swimming in my blood. The beauty of art and poetry, in particular, is its two-sided trait; being very mysterious and vague, yet incredibly clear and straightforward that it puts the reader in a never-ending cycle of thinking openly and falling in love with the simplest breeze that passes while reading and memorizing the words.