Bassem al-Meraiby
was born in Iraq in 1960. He studied acting and theatre direction in Baghdad. He has published four collections of poems; his first, Al-’Atil ’An al-Wardah, for which he won the Yusuf al-Khal Prize for Poetry, was published in 1988 in London. He lives now in Sweden.
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Banipal No 4 Spring 1999
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