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2013 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition Winners
Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition winners have been announced. Our heartfelt congratulations to all the winners of the Fifth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition.
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2013 Festival
The fifth Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival will be celebrating the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Our invited speaker is Fady Joudah, poet and the leading translator of Darwish’s poetry to English. The program will also include a panel discussion on the life and poetry of Mahmoud Darwish.
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About Mahmoud Darwish
On March 13, 1941 Mahmoud Darwish was born in Al Birweh, Palestine, into a land-owning Sunni Muslim family. During the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, his village was destroyed and his family fled to Lebanon. They returned the following year, secretly re-entering Israel.
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Fady Joudah
The son of Palestinians, poet Fady Joudah was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up in Libya and Saudi Arabia. He was educated at the University of Georgia, the Medical College of Georgia, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston.
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Kathryn Stripling Byer
Kathryn Stripling Byer grew up in southwest Georgia, graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied with Allen Tate, Fred Chappell, and Robert Watson.
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Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival has been made possible by a major grant from the Turkish Cultural Foundation
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