Poet Biography

Najwan Darwish

NAJWAN DARWISH was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1978. His first poetry
collection, He was Knocking at the Last Door, was published in 2000, and some
of his poems have been translated into Spanish and French, as well as of course
into English. He is the editor of Min wa Illa, the From and To magazine which
publishes the works of the current generation of Arab writers and artists in the
region. Najwan is active in diverse media and art projects in Palestine, the Arab
world and Europe. His poems evoke the Palestinian situation in various modes of
resistance—-through lyricism mixed with irony, and a strong sense of immediacy
as defiant melancholy.