Djelloul Marbrook
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Djelloul Marbrook (b. 1934, Algiers) is a contemporary Algerian-American poet and writer. He grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip and Manhattan, where he attended Dwight Preparatory School and Columbia University. He worked as a soda jerk, newspaper vendor, messenger, theater and nightclub concessionaire, and served in the U.S. Navy and merchant marine.
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[edit] Career
He was a reporter for The Providence Journal and an editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, The Washington Star and Media News newspapers in northeast Ohio and Paterson, New Jersey and Passaic, New Jersey.
His poems, essays and short stories have appeared in a number of journals. His unpublished work include:
- 3 novels- Divers' Angels, Crowds of One and Zij
- 2 novellas - The Pain of Wearing Our Faces and Artemisia's Wolf
- A collection of short stories, Later For You.
He is the editor in chief of the English version of Arabesques Literary and Cultural Review.
[edit] Prizes & Awards
Marbrook is the 2007 winner of Kent State University's Stan and Tom Wick Prize for a first book of poetry. Far From Algiers is slated to be published in the autumn of 2008. It will be available from the press (http://upress.kent.edu/) and from book stores and online sellers everywhere.
[edit] Summary/Context
The pioneering Online Originals (UK), the only online publisher to receive a Booker nomination, published his novella, Alice Miller's Room, in 1999. Recent fiction appeared in Prima Materia Vols. I and IV (Woodstock, New York), and Breakfast All Day (London).
In his younger days his poetry was published in literary journals including Solstice (UK) and Beyond Baroque and Phantasm (California). Recent poems appear in Arabesques, Perpetuum Mobile (Baltimore), and Attic (Baltimore).
[edit] SARACENO
Saraceno is an electric tone-poem straight from a world we only think we understand. An heir to George V. Higgins and David Mamet, Djelloul Marbrook writes dialogue that not only entertains with an intoxicating clickety-clack, but also packs a truth about low-life mob culture "The Sopranos" only hints at. You can practically smell the anisette and filling-station coffee. —Dan Baum, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty (Morrow, 2000)
• "...a good ear for crackling dialogue... I love Marbrook's crude, raw music of the streets. The notes are authentic and on target..." —Sam Coale, The Providence (RI) Journal
• "This lyrical and violent, funny and sad, hot and cool novella haunts us. Try it." —Ann LaFarge, Taconic Weekend
• "Haunting... when I finished, I kept remembering pieces." —Carol Walters, Director, Sandhills Regional Library System, N.C.
• "...an admirable first novel." —Paul Smart, Woodstock Times
• "...a mature artist whose rich body of work is finally coming to light." —Brent Robison, editor, Prima Materia
