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Born in Haiti to a Palestinian family from Bethlehem, Nathalie Handal is a French-American poet and playwright. She and her family moved between the Arab world, France, England, the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.
She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bennington College in Vermont, and holds an MA in English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. She began writing and translating world literature in the 1990s. She visited Bethlehem for the first time as a teenager. She currently resides in the city of New York and Paris, and taught at Columbia University. and Columbia University in New York.
In 2016, her poems were selected for publication in the New York City metro and bus schedules as part of the "Poetry in Motion" project.
literary profession
Natalie with Roddy Doyle and Andrew at the Palestine Festival of Literature 2008 in Bethlehem.
Natalie wrote and wrote poetry, plays, and articles. She also edited two collections of anthologies. She participated in writing, directing, and producing many theatrical and cinematic works. Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. She is a fellow of the Lannan Foundation, a fellow of PEN International Croatia, and a fellow of Centro Andaluz de Las. Letras, a Fondazione di Venezia Fellow, was awarded the Alejo Zuluaga Medal in Literature in 2011, was runner-up in the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, and nominated for the New London Book Award and the Arts Council England Book Awards.
Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times, World Literature Today, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry New Zealand, Guernica, and The Nation.
Her book The Lives of Rain was shortlisted for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and won the Menada Literary Award, and Love and Strange Horses won the Publisher's Book Award Gold Medal. The Independent (IPPY Award) 2011, and her collection The Republics is considered one of the most innovative books by today's most diverse writers, and has been the recipient of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award.
Natalie edited "The Poetry of Arab Women - An Anthology of Arab Women's Poetry", in which she introduced Arab women poets to a wide Western audience, and was one of the best-selling books in the "Academy of American Poets", and was considered by the Guardian as one of the 10 best feminist books. She is the winner of the Auckland International PEN Club's Josephine Miles Literary Award, and edited with Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond" and Beyond”, and she was a visiting writer and lecturer at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, John Cabot in Rome, the American University of Beirut, and New York University, and she was a “Picador Guest Professor” at the German University of Leipzig. Natalie is currently a professor at the University of Columbia, and visiting writer at the American University in Rome.
She writes reviews for Popola Magazine, and for the online magazine Words Without Borders.
leaflets
Poetry
“Al-Talhamiyah”, Jordan, 2017.
(English: The Neverfield Poem), 1999.
The Lives of Rain, 2005.
(Italian: Le vite della pioggia), Iacobelli Editor, Rome, Italy, 2018.
"Love and Strange Horses", University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
"(English: Poet in Andalucía)", University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
"(Spanish: Poeta en Andalucía)", Visor, Spain, 2013.
«(Croatian: Pjesnik u Andaluziji)”, Druja Preca, Zagreb, 2017.
“The Invisible Star/La estrella invisible” Valparaiso Edison, 2014.
“(Spanish: La estrella invisible)”, Valparaiso Editions, 2014.
"The Republics", University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
Life in a Country Album, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
(English: Life in A Country Album - UK)", Flipidye, UK, 2020.
“(Spanish: Las horas suspendidas: poemas escogidos) - The Hanging Hours: Selected Poems.” Valparaiso Edisones, 2012.
«(Italian: Riflessi, Artist Book, Illustrazioni di Lucio Schiavo) - Damocles Edisoni, Venice, 2016.
“(Italian: Canto Mediterraneo) - Mediterranean Singing”, Ronzani Editor, Italy, 2018.
«(In English: Selected Poems: 2005-2019) - Selected Poems: 2005-2019”, Raya Publishing, Haifa, 2020.
Anthology
«(In English: The Poetry of Arab Women) - Anthology of Arab Women's Poetry", 2001.
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond, W.W. Norton, edited by Handal, Tina Chang, and Ravi Shankar.
plays
«(in English: Between Our Lips) - between our lips».
(Italian: La Cosa Dei Sogni) - La Cosa dei Sogni.
«(in English: The Stonecutters) - stones».
«(English: The Details of Silence)
The Oklahoma Quartet
Hakawatiyeh - The Storyteller.
«(in English: Men in Verse) - men in verse».
prose
“The Night and Nightingale,” Guernica, March 2017.
(English: My East in Venice).
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