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Najwan Darwish in conversation with Mike Ladd
Najwan Darwish is a poet from Jerusalem, Palestine. He has published nine poetry books in Arabic and his work has been translated into over 20 languages. The New York Review of Books described him as “one of the foremost Arabic-language poets”.
Najwan lives under illegal and extremely oppressive Israeli occupation, and although he doesn’t shy away from speaking about the daily realities of that, his poems often read more like prayers than polemics. He says his job is “to bear witness, to be a voice for the voiceless and the dead.”
Mike Ladd, Poet and ex-presenter of Radio National’s Poetica program talks to Najwan Darwish about his life and work and Najwan reads from his latest collection No One Will Know You Tomorrow published by Yale University Press.
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Najwan Darwish
Najwan Darwish is a poet from Jerusalem, Palestine. He has published nine poetry books in Arabic and his work has been translated into over 20 languages. New York Review Books, which published the English translation of his books Nothing More to Lose and Exhausted on the Cross describes him as, “one of the foremost Arabic-language poets”. He has received several awards, most recently: The Sarah Maguire Prize, the Cilento International Poetry Prize and Le Grand prix de Poésie étrangère. Najwan has co-founded and directed several cultural and artistic projects throughout the Arab world and served as an advisor to several Palestinian and Arab cultural initiatives and literary festivals. He has held many key positions in cultural journalism and has been the Chief Cultural Editor of the Arabic-language London-based newspaper Al Araby Al Jadeed since 2014.
Mike Ladd
Mike Ladd was born in 1959 in Berkeley California to Australian parents and grew up at Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills. Mike is a poet, essayist and reviewer. He has published ten collections of
