Joumana Haddad
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Lebanon
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poet
Poet
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, translator and journalist
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Career
She has already published several poetry collections, widely acclaimed by critics. Her books have been translated to many languages and published abroad.Speaking seven languages, Haddad is a polyglot and has written books in different languages, and has also published several works of translation, including an anthology of Lebanese modern poetry in Spanish, published in Spain
Spain
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as well as in many Latin America
Latin America
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n countries, and an anthology of 150 poets who committed suicide in the 20th century.
She interviewed many international writers, such as Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
, Paul Auster
Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
, Jose Saramago
José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
, Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...
, Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...
, and others.
Joumana Haddad has been awarded the Arab Press Prize in 2006.
In 2009, she co-wrote and acted in a movie by Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab
Jocelyne Saab
Jocelyne Saab is a journalist and film director from Lebanon.-Movies:* 1975: Portrait d'un mercenaire français* 1975: Lebanon in a Whirlwind* 1976: Les Enfants de la guerre...
("What's going on?"). She also had an appearance in a documentary by filmmaker Nasri Hajjaj, about Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet...
.
In November 2009, she won the International Prize North South for poetry, of the Pescarabruzzo Foundation in Italy. The winner of the novel prize was Austrian writer Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...
.
In February 2010, she won the Blue Metropolis Al Majidi Ibn Dhaher Arab Literary Prize
In August 2010, she received the Rodolfo Gentili Prize in Porto Recanati, Italy.
In addition, she is a performer and a collage
Collage
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artist.
Translations into other languages
- Damit ich abreisen kann, 2005, Lisan Verlag, Basel, Switzerland.
- Cuando me hice fruta, 2006, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas, Venezuela.
- El retorno de Lilith, 2007, Editorial Praxis, Mexico, Mexico/ 2010, Diputacion Provincial de Malaga, Mar Remoto, Spain.
- Le retour de Lilith, 2007, Editions L’Inventaire, Paris, France/ 2011, Editions Actes Sud, Paris, France.
- Liliths Wiederkehr, 2008, Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin, Germany.
- Adrenalina, 2009, "Edizioni del Leone", Venice, Italy.
- Il ritorno di Lilith, 2010, "Edizioni l'Asino d'Oro", Rome, Italy.
- Lilits återkomst, 2010, Bokförlaget Tranan, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Espejos de las fugaces, 2010, "Vaso Roto ediciones", Mexico.
- Miroirs des passantes dans le songe, 2010, « Al Dante », Paris, France.
- Las siete vidas de Luca, Literatura infantil, 2011, Vaso Roto, México, México.
About her
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