Ibrahim Nasrallah
was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1954, and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp. He worked in journalism from 1978 to 1996.
From 1996 to 2002 he was director of cultural affairs at the Darat al-Funoun–Khalid Shoman Foundation in Amman. He is currently vice-president there.
His first novel Prairies of Fever (1985) was published in English translation in 1993 (Interlink, USA). He has pubiished many novels and thirteen collections of poetry. He is translated into several languages with one novel in English.
He has won prizes for his work, including the Owais award for poetry 1997. He won the ’Arrar prize (1991 and the Tayseer Sbool Prize for a novel (1994).
His latest novel, [Time of White Horses] is short-listed for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2008-2009.
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06/02/2012At a celebration of literary translation on Monday 6 February at Kings Place, Khaled Mattawa will receive the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
[read more]03/02/2012
The Mosaic Rooms celebrates theartistic and poetic works of the great Syrian poet Adonis with talks and events from 3-8 February and an exhibition of Adonis's collages from 3 February until 30 March. The opening evening this Friday sees Adonis in conversation with Khaled Mattawa who is the winner of the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation Adonis: Selected Poems.
[read more]16/01/2012
Khaled Mattawa wins the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Translation Prize for Adonis:Selected Poems
[read more]12/01/2012
Chair of IPAF Judges Georges Tarabichi announces the shortlist authors of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
[read more]09/01/2012
Banipal Book Club's first book for discussion is The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader.
[read more]08/01/2012
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