Sinan Antoon
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Sinan Antoon, Michael Palmer, and Russell Banks, speaking in tribute to the late writer Mahmoud Darwish, at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.
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Sinan Antoon (born 1967) (Arabic: سنان أنطون), is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He was featured in the 2003 documentary film About Baghdad, which he also co-directed.
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Background and career
Antoon was born in 1967 in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and American mother.[1] He received his B.A. in English from the University of Baghdad in 1990. He left Iraq in 1991 after the onset of the Gulf War and moved to the United States. He completed an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University in 1995.[2] In 2006, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Arabic and Islamic Studies.[3]
He is the author of a number of books and his work has appeared in The Nation, Middle East Report, Al-Ahram Weekly, Banipal, Journal of Palestine Studies, The Massachusetts Review, World Literature Today, Ploughshares, Washington Square Journal, and the New York Times. He is also a co-founder and co-editor of the e-zine Jadaliyya.[4]
Honors and awards
- 2013:Ya Maryam (Ave Maria) shortlisted for the 2013 International Prize of Arabic Fiction (The Arabic Booker)[5]
- 2013: Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin[6]
- 2012: National Translation Award for his translation of Mahmoud Darwish's In the Presence of Absence from the American Literary Translators Association[7]
Works
Books
- The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013[3]
- Ya Maryam (Ave Maria), Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2012 [3]
- The Baghdad Blues, Harbor Mountain Press, 2007, ISBN 9780978600945[3]
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Film
Further reading
- Iğsız, Aslii. "Conversation with Sinan Antoon: Poet and Novelist." University of Arizona Poetry Center.
References
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- Living people
- 1967 births
- Georgetown University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- New York University faculty
- Middle East studies scholars
- Writers from Baghdad
- American people of Iraqi descent
- Iraqi writers
- Iraqi film directors
- Iraqi poets
- University of Baghdad alumni
