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Ghayath Almadhoun

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Born: 19.7.1979

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Vita

Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet born in 1979 in Damascus, Syria, and emigrated to Sweden in 2008.

He has published four poetry collections in Arabic and his work has been translated into dozens of languages.

Almadhoun collaborated with other poets and artists and his poetry has been part of work by US artist Jenny Holzer and German musician Blixa Bargeld, and others.

His latest collection Adrenalin, published in English by Action Books in 2017, was among SPD Poetry Bestsellers in the US and was nominated for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award.

In German, a selection of his poems "Ein Raubtier namens Mittelmeer" (Predator called the Mediterranean), Arche Verlag, 2018, ranked top of the Litprom-Bestenliste 2018 of best books translated into German.

In 2019 he was awarded "Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD" and lately, his poetry film "Évian" won the Zebra Best Poetry Film Award 2020.

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I was granted a one-year-long DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program award scholarship. (Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD) in 2019.

Awards

2005 Almazraa prize, Syria
2008 Damascus Arab Capital of Culture prize for young writers, Syria
2012 Klas de Vylders prize, Sweden
2008 The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program award scholarship (Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD), Germany
2020 Best Poetry Film 2020 - ZEBRA poetry film festival, Germany



Work

Publications in german

Ein Raubtier namens Mittelmeer

Arche Literatur Verlag AG, 2018

Publications in original language

أدرينالين

Almutawassit, 2017

كلما اتسعت المدينة ضاقت غرفتي

Ministry of Culture in Syria on the occasion of Damascus as Capital for Arabic Culture, 2008

لا أستطيع الحضور

Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2014

قصائد سقطت سهوًا

Arab Writers Union, 2004
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