Dunya Mikhail

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Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an United States-based poet who was born in Iraq.^[1] Mikhail worked as Literary Editor for The Baghdad Observer. Facing increasing threats and harassment from the Iraqi authorities for her writings, she fled Iraq in the late 1990s and studied Near Eastern Studies at Wayne State University. In 2001, she was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.

Mikhail has published four collections of poetry in Arabic (she speaks and writes in Arabic, Aramaic, and English), and one lyrical multi-genre text, The Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. She currently lives in Michigan.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea, 1999
• The War Works Hard, (translated in 2005 by Elizabeth Winslow) (shortlisted for the 2006 International Griffin Poetry Prize)

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[edit] External links

• Official Web site
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
• Boston Review - Poetry Microreview of The War Works Hard
• Dunya Mikhail profile on Words Without Borders Web site
• Dunya Mikhail interview and reading on National Public Radio (NPR)