Maram al-Massri
is from Lattakia in Syria, now settled in Paris. She studied English Literature at Damascus University before starting publishing her poetry in Arab magazines in the 1970s. Her second collection won the Adonis Prize for Poetry in 1997.
Some of her work has been published in French, and in 2004 a bilingual Arabic-English collection was published by Bloodaxe. The poems in A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor were translated by Khaled Mattawa and included many first published in Banipal No 4. (see also review by Guy Bennett in Banipal 21.) In 2004 Maram took part in the first Arab authors' event at the Dublin Writers' Festival, put on in partnership with Banipal.
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Banipal No 4 Spring 1999
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