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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’

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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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