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258 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

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Ibrahim Nasrallah

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Ibrahim Nasrallah (Arabic: إبراهيم نصرالله), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were forcibly displaced from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp in Jordan, and began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia. After returning to Amman, he worked in the media and cultural sectors till 2006 when he dedicated his life to writing. To date, he has published 15 poetry collections, 22 novels, and several other books. In 1985, he started writing the Palestinian Comedy covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history in a series of novels in which each novel is an independent one; to date 13 novels have been published in the framework of this project. Five of his novels and a volume of poetry have been published in English, nine in Persian, four works in Italian, two in Spanish, and one novel in Danish and Turkish.

Nasrallah is also an artist and photographer and has had four solo exhibitions of his photography. He won nine prizes, and his novel Prairies of Fever was chosen by the Guardian newspaper as one of the most important ten novels written by Arabs or non-Arabs about the Arab world. Three of his novels were listed on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for the years 2009, 2013, and 2014. In 2012 he won the inaugural Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity for his literary work. His books are considered one of the most influential and best seller Arabic books, as new editions are released frequently and many young readers are attracted to his books.

In January 2014, he succeeded in summiting Mount Kilimanjaro in a venture that involved two Palestinian adolescents, a boy and a girl, who have lost their legs. The climb was in support to a nongovernmental organization dedicated to providing medical services to Palestinian and Arab children. Nasrallah wrote about this journey in a novel entitled The Spirits of Kilimanjaro (2015). In 2016, Nasrallah was awarded the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels for this work.

His novel The Second Dog War was awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Arabic Booker) for 2018. In 2020 he became the first Arabic writer to be awarded the "Katara Prize" for Arabic Novels for the second time for his novel "A Tank Under the Christmas Tree".

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170 reviews28 followers
October 8, 2015

الديوان يحتوي على مختلف من القصائد الجميلة، جميعها تحتاج إلى مخيلة صافية كي يرى القارئ تلك الصورة الحية التي ينقلها الكاتب في قصيدته. المشاهد كثيرة بعضها عن الحرب وبعضها عن مشاغلنا ويومياتنا والأخرى هواجس من روح الإنسان. ما يميز القصائد أنها لا تفسر بطريقة واحدة وحتى إن أردت أن تعيد قراءتها ربما قد تفسرها تفسيراً مختلفاً.
Profile Image for مريم ناصر.
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January 27, 2013
من أجمل الدواوين التي قرأتها مؤخراً , , أحببت كثيراً قصيدة -إيقاع آخر- و قرأتها ربما 30 مرة , و كل مرة أجدها أجمل.!.
مع الديوان CD لبعض القصائد , لفتة جميلة جداً
Profile Image for شهْد الحربي.
24 reviews1 follower
April 13, 2015
" وأني بنيت مدائن ما زارها أحد
وضحكت لأني أعليتها
وبكيت ، وعيني تراها تزول ! "

" محاولة ليس أكثر :
قلبي .. وهذه القصيده ! "

إبراهيم نصر الله ، هذه المرة كان الاختيار على ديوان شعري .. أحببته ، ليس كثيرا ، تتفاوت مستويات القصائد فيه ، لكنه بالمجمل: كتاب لطيف
Profile Image for Sarra Attia.
76 reviews60 followers
November 24, 2015
وأني بنيتُ مدائن ما زارها أحد ،
وضحكتُ لأني أعليتها ، وبكيتُ .. وعيني تراها تزول!
الذي عشته بعد ذلك أصعب،
أجمل، أخطر ، أرحبُ أكثر
لكنني أبدًا لن أقول!


- به من العذوبة والرقة الكثير :)
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121 reviews7 followers
June 27, 2018
أحب كل مايكتبه نصر الله
للمرة الأولى أقرأ له ديوان كامل كل ماقرأته من قبل كان مقتطفات قصيرة أو قصيدة مسموعة بصوته
أحببت شعره المكتوب بمخيلة صافية ، كنت أتخيله و هو يكتب ، هذا الرجل عظيم و أنا مغرمة بما يكتب ، نعم هذا تحيز لكنه يستحق .
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April 14, 2013
شِعر.
برزت بعض القصائد حيّة. إلى جانب القليل من الملل والكثير من التشتت وأنا أقرأ لنصر الله. أما القرص المدمج المرفق لم يفلح في جذبي أيضًا. أخذني في حالة شرود وأنا أقود السيارة.
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December 21, 2015
خلفَ كُلِّ سَراب
دائماً سيكون هنالكَ باب !


وَفراتٌ ونيل !
Profile Image for أفنان المريشد.
84 reviews4 followers
October 31, 2023
برشاقة ساق الفراشة ورفّة جناحيها ينقلنا نصرالله بين الحلم والحقيقة بين الألم والأمل، بين الصورة والمتخيل، ويحط بنا عند طرف الوادي، يخبرنا عما نشتهي ولأجل ماذا نقاتل!
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