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Born in Baghdad on March 19, Dunya Mikhail
has published four collections of poetry in Arabic and one in English.
They include (titles are translated
from the Arabic) The Psalms of Absence, Almost Music, and The
War Works Hard.
In 2001, she was awarded the
UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.
“The War
Works Hard”, New Directions, 2005, (2nd edition, Carcanet, 2006) won PEN’
s Translation
Award, shortlisted for Griffen Poetry Prize, and selected
by New York Public Library as one of 25 best books of 2005.
She’s been in anthologies including World Beat- International
Poetry Now, Le Poeme Arabe Moderne, Iraqi Poetry
Today, The Post-Gibran Anthology of New Arab-American Writing, New Arab
Poetry, and The Poetry of Arab Women.
She has a master degree in Near Eastern Studies from Wayne State University
in Michigan and a Bachelor degree in English Literature from the University
of Baghdad. She is currently working as an Arabic resource coordinator
for Dearborn Public Schools.
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