Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (b. 1942) is an Arab poet and political activist. He has published around 30 poetry and prose collections that have been translated into 35 languages. Several of his poems have been put to music. In 1997, a documentary was producted about him by French-Israeli director Simone Bitton. Darwish is the winner of the 2001 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.

January 2018

I Don’t Want This Poem to End: Early and Late Poems by Mahmoud Darwish

Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink Books. 2017. 242 pages. Mahmoud Darwish’s last, posthumously published collection of poems (2009) contains some of the poet’s most accomplished and most challengi...
November 2012

In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish

Sinan Antoon, tr. New York. Archipelago. 2011. ISBN 9781935744016 Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, threaded themes of death and loss throughout his poetry of hope, resistance, and empowerment. He an...