Hassan Najmi was born in 1959 in Ibn Ahme (Ben Ahmed), Morocco and currently lives in Rabat. He has a diploma in Arabic literature from Rabat College of Literature and Humanities. In 1977, he started publishing his work in various newspapers. He has published four collections of poems, one novel and two books of essays, one with Moroccan artist Kacimi. He is arts editor of Al-Ittihad al-Ishtiraki and was president of the Moroccan Union of Writers (1998-2005).
Other Voices 26 includes a selection of prose pieces translated into English by Norddine Zouitni. Poetry International Web offers an introduction to his work, and a sample of his poems in English. They have also been translated into French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, and Farsi. Many of his poems were published in European poetry reviews in Spain, Italy, France, and England. Selections of his poetry were also included in French, German, Spanish, and English anthologies of Modern Arab poetry.
He himself translated many poems from French by Italian, Greek, Portuguese, and French poets such as Ritsos, Guillevic, Ungaretti, Sophia de Mello Bryner, Nuno Júdice, and others.
Details:
DOB: 1959.
Country: Morocco
Selected works:
Poetry:
The Princedom of Lavender
Inadvertently Omitted
Brown winds (with the painter Mohammed Kacimi)
A Little Life
The Bathers
A Small Eternity
The Key of Granada(with the painter Abdelkader Laarej)
Aside
The Tongue Longs for You
Novel:
The veil
The Spinster (forthcoming)
Gertrude, on the Life of Gertrude Stein in France (forthcoming)
Non-fiction prose:
Permissible Speech
People and Authority
The course of a Great Mind
The Poet and Experience
Poeticising Space
The Book of Example and Faithfulness
Poeticising the Rubble
The ‘Aita Songs: Oral Poetry and Traditional Music in Morocco
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