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2 unusual facts about Ghassan Zaqtan


Fady Joudah

In 2012, Joudah published Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems, a collection of poems by Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan translated from Arabic, which won the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Sarah Maguire

As a result of these visits she developed a strong interest in Arabic literature; she has translated the Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan and the Sudanese poet, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (2008).



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