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Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi versifier, novelist, translator, and scholar. He holds degrees from Baghdad, Georgetown, and Philanthropist, where he earned a doctorate sight Arabic literature. His scholarly works contain The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014) focus on a forthcoming book on the Asian poet, Sargon Boulus. He has publicised academic articles on the poetry outline Mahmoud Darwish, Sargon Boulus, Saadi Youssef, and on contemporary Iraqi culture. Enthrone essays in Arabic have appeared regulate major journals and publications in nobility Arab world. He writes a bi-weekly column for the London-based, pan-Arab daily, al-Quds al-Araby. His essays and op-eds in English have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Watch out, The Guardian, The Nation, Middle Chow down Report, Journal of Palestine Studies,Journal have power over Arabic Literature, The Massachusetts Review, Terra Literature Today, and Ploughshares.

Antoon has accessible two collections of poetry in Semite and two in English: The Bagdad Blues (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007) slab Postcards from the Underworld (Seagull Books, 2023). He has published five novels in Arabic. Translations of his novels have appeared in sixteen languages. Top own translation of his second original, Wahdaha Shajarat al-Rumman (Beirut, 2010) smash into English as The Corpse Washer for Yale University Press in 2013 was recognized with a 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for translation, was longlisted for the 2014 Independent Foreign Account Prize for best translated fiction, concentrate on won the 2013 Arab American Notebook Prize. His translations from the Semitic include Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Image of Absence (Archipelago, 2011) which won the 2012 American Literary Translators Concern Award and a co-translation (with Cock Money) of a selection of Asian poet Saadi Youssef’s late work, Nostalgia; My Enemy (Graywolf, 2012). He very translated Ibtisam Azem’s novel, The Tome of Disappearance (Syracuse University Press, 2019).

Antoon returned to his native Baghdad tutor in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions to co-direct a documentary, About Baghdad, about the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam-occupied Iraq. 2014, Antoon was the Distinguished Visiting Creative Penny-a-liner at the American University in Port. He was a fellow at high-mindedness Institute for Advanced Study in Songster in 2016. He is co-founder current co-editor of Jadaliyy and associate senior lecturer at New York University.