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Olivia Elias

Contributor

Olivia Elias

France Palestine

Olivia Elias (Haifa, 1944) is a French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora. She lived until the age of 16 in Lebanon, where her family took refuge in 1948, then in Montreal, Canada....

Characterized by terse language and strong rhythms – and translated into English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese – her work has been published in numerous reviews and anthologies. With Chaos, Crossing (World Poetry, Nov. 2022), translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, she made her English-language debut. In September 2023, the chapbook Your Name, Palestine was published in a limited illustrated edition, translated by Sarah Riggs and Jérémy Victor Robert (WP editor). https://eliasolivia.com

Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash

Between Sky & Earth

By Olivia Elias

if we collected all the tears / would it wash away the soot / resurrect the dead.

Translated from French by Jérémy Victor Robert

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Olivia Elias

Olivia Elias

Articles by Olivia Elias

Between Sky & Earth