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Lili Kamel Karnick Sargsian, generally
known as Lily Karnik and also Laila Karnick (1939 - November 19, 2012), a
Palestinian Christian poet, writer, and writer. She was born and raised in the
Palestinian city of Tulkarm. She is considered one of the most prominent poets
of Palestine. Pioneers of the women's poetic movement. She is one of the
founders of the Palestinian Writers' Union. She has a number of literary works,
including several collections of poetry.
her biography
I was born to Kamel Karnick Sargsyan
in Tulkarm, Mandatory Palestine, in 1939, to a Palestinian Christian family
whose ancestors are of Armenian descent. She received her primary, preparatory,
and secondary education in the schools of her home city, Tulkarm, and finished
high school at the Friends School for Girls. She obtained a university degree
in “Psychology” from the National College in Cairo, where her studies in this
specialty lasted for two years.
Lee Karnick joined the Education
Corps, where she worked as a teacher in a number of Palestinian schools, such
as UNRWA schools in Deir Ammar, Qalandia, and Jalazoun. She moved to Lebanon
for a while, then returned to her homeland, Palestine, and continued her
profession in UNRWA schools.
her literary life
She began her literary life at an early
age when she was fifteen years old, and was influenced by Gibran Khalil Gibran
in her writings and poetic texts. At the beginning of her literary life, she
was influenced by the romantic literary school, and began publishing her poems
in the first half of the sixties in Palestinian and Arab newspapers and
literary periodicals, such as the Palestinian “New Horizon” magazine, the
Palestinian “Al-Bayader” literary magazine, and the Lebanese “Al-Adeeb”magazine.
In the aftermath of the Israeli
occupation of the Palestinian territories in June 1967, Lee Karnick, accompanied
by Fadwa Touqan and others, began to revitalize Palestinian literary life under
occupation. Palestinian poetic writings invaded the scene again, and another
group of poets joined the Palestinian literary scene.
In 1975, Lee Karnick co-founded the
literary magazine "Voice of the Generation". Karnick was entrusted
with the magazine's editorial secretariat. Its first issue was published at the
end of March 1975.
In her poetry, Karnick belonged to
the school of prose and prose. During her life, she was one of the faces of the
Palestinian literary movement, and one of the symbols of writing and poetry in
the Palestinian land. Her pen had an impact on the Palestinian cultural scene,
and she is one of the founders of the Palestinian Writers and Writers Union.
She participated in poetry events, and she is also one of the faces of the
Palestinian feminist movement, and she was absent from the cultural scene after
her death.
Her authors
She has a number of books,
including:
On the Wings of the Moon, a
collection of poetry, published in 1973.
“Drops of Longing on the Crossing
Platform,” a collection of poetry, published in 1978.
“Shallal Al-Alam”, a collection of
poetry, published in 1994.
her death
Lee Karnick passed away on Monday,
November 19, 2012. She was mourned by several personalities and organizations
in Palestine, as was the general bishop of the Anglicans, Archbishop Suhail
Dawani.
Highlights of what was said about
her
The writer, Shaker Farid Hassan,
said about her: “Lee Karnick is a poet who gathered to her poetic talent a
literary culture that enabled her to ripen her poetic experience, adapt the
language and explode her semantic energies, and she carried her cross and did
not continue the Calvary.”
The poet Muhammad Helmy Al-Raisha
misses her, saying: “Where does my carnic have drops of longing on the crossing
sidewalk?”
Writer Nabih Al-Qasim says: “Laila
Alloush, Samira Al-Khatib, Sahar Khalifa, and Laila Karnick are creators who
have enriched the nation with their distinctive creativity.”
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