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Muhsin al-Ramli
Muhsin al-Ramli was born in 1967 in northern Iraq. Since 1995 he has published four books (two collections of short stories, a novel and a play). He has lived in Madrid, Spain, since 1995, where he has published 11 works – collections of short stories, novels, a play, essays and poetry). He has a PhD in Philosophy and Spanish Literature from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2003), and teaches at the Saint Louis University, Madrid.
He is a co-founder of Alwaha literary magazine and the author of [The Happy Nights of Bombing], Cairo, 1993; [Papers: Far Away from Tangier – Short Stories], Amman, 1998, and [Searching for a Vivacious Heart: A Collection of Plays], Madrid 1997.
The translation of his novel Scattered Crumbs by Yasmeen Hanoosh won the Arkansas Translation Award. See Banipal No 17 for a pre-publication excerpt of the novel. His novel Dates on My Fingers and The President's Gardens are both translated by Luke Leafgren, with a pre-publication excerpt of the latter published in Banipal 57.
Click here to read an interview with Mushin al-Ramli about writing The President's Garden, whose Arabic original was longlisted for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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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