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Sinan Antoon

Portrait of writer and translator Sinan Antoon
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Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon (Baghdad, 1967) is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. He holds degrees from Baghdad, Georgetown, and Harvard, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book, In the Presence of Absence, won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. His translation of his own novel, The Corpse Washer, won the 2014 Saif Ghobash Prize for Literary Translation and was longlisted for the International Prize for Foreign Fiction. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave, 2014). He has published op-eds in The Guardian, New York Times, and various Arab publications. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya. He is an associate professor at New York University. He was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2016/17. Twitter: @sinanantoon

Articles by Sinan Antoon

from “The Book of Disappearance”
By Ibtisam Azem
We inherit memory the way we inherit the color of our eyes and skin.
Translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon
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Music in a Baghdad Alley
By Sargon Boulus
If you wish to sleep with me / In her dirt-filled arms
Translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon
In Saadi Shirazi’s Garden (When He Was a Prisoner)
By Sargon Boulus
With my lips I can read / better than a blind man
Translated from Arabic by Sinan Antoon
A Butterfly in New York
By Sinan Antoon
Its wings two leaves / falling from heaven
Translated from Arabic by the author