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.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal No 4 Spring 1999
Latest News
18/02/2010Remembering Tayeb Salih, who died last year on 18 February.
[read more]11/01/2010
The winner of the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is Samah Selim for her translation of The Collar and the Bracelet by the late Yahya Taher Abdullah.
[read more]15/12/2009
The ARAB BOOKER PRIZE Short List titles and authors was announced at the Beirut Book Fair last December
[read more]29/11/2009
January 2010 – an innovative and intensive workshop for Arabic to English and English to Arabic literary translation – fiction and plays
[read more]26/11/2009
The Dissolving Cube Exhibition, 26 Nov to 5 Dec, includes film of Moroccan poet Hassan Najmi reading poem "The Cape"
[read more]16/11/2009
The 16 titles and authors on the Long List of the 2009-2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction were announced in Cairo today . . .
[read more][read all news stories]