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Linda France
Linda France is a poet, tutor, editor and mentor, teaching Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She is based near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland and is pursuing her PhD on Women and Landscape. She studied English and History at Leeds University, and lived in London and Amsterdam before returning to the UK’s North East.
Born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, when she was five years old her family moved to the other end of the country, to Poole, Dorset. While this shift – in geography, accent and culture – uprooted her, it also sharpened her awareness of the power of language. The last, late child of older parents, she immersed herself in reading and writing. Her first literary attempts were historical plays that her fellow students performed in classrooms and castles. Later, Linda would write two commissioned dramas – one about family and fate and the other about Frida Kahlo; class, gender, history and art are recurring preoccupations in her work.
She is currently completing her doctoral research on Women and Landscape, focussed on Allen Banks, a limestone gorge and ancient woodland, landscaped in the 19th century by Susan Davidson and cared for now by the National Trust.
Contributor's Issues
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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Banipal Book Club
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