Nathalie Handal
Author of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
About the Author
Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France, and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her recent poetry books include the flash collection The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, and the Arab American Book show more Award; the critically acclaimed Poet in Andaluca; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. Handal is the recipient of awards from the Lannan Foundation, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Fondazione di Venezia, and the Emily Harvey Foundation, among others. She is a professor at Columbia University, and writes the literary travel column "The City and the Writer" for Words without Borders magazine. show less
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Works by Nathalie Handal
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (2008) — Editor — 121 copies
Associated Works
Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry (2008) — Contributor — 24 copies
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- Handal, Nathalie
- Birthdate
- 1969
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Haïti
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- 4.2
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Language for a New Century is a book one could read for years, always picking up something new with each read. While the poetry gives voice to writers as far away as Palestine, Nepal, the Philippines and Ghana, the essays between sections provide great mini-lessons on why this poetry has importance to us.
Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar provide lessons that demonstrate their thesis that "the beauty of words, they refuse boundaries. They belong everywhere." Some timely voices and great poets include, Adunis from Syria, Kofi Awoonor who sadly passed away during the terrorist attack in Kenya, Nazim Hikmet, Vikram Seth or Ha Jin.… (more)