Amjad Nasser

Amjad Nasser is a major contributor to today's Arab poetry scene. Born in Jordan in 1955, from 1976 he worked in newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus. Since 1987 he has lived in London where he is managing editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper.

He has published nine volumes of poetry, four travel memoirs and a novel. He is the recipient of a number of literary prizes for his works, and has performed his poetry at many international festivals, from South America to London's Poetry International. An anthology of his poetry has been published in Cairo, and he has two volumes of selected poems in French and Italian respectively.  Selected poems have been translated into English, Spanish and French.

In July 2009 Banipal Books published Shepherd of Solitude, Selected Poems, a volume of his poems selected by himself and his translator, Khaled Mattawa, who also introduces the volume of work. It is Amjad Nasser's first  English collection.

He has been a judge on many literary prizes, including the Lettre Ulysses Award, and the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.