Nathalie Handal

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Nathalie Handal
Born	July 29, 1969 Haiti
Education	Master of Philosophy(English and Drama), Master of Fine Arts(Creative Writing and Literature), Master of Arts(English), Bachelor of Arts(International Relations and Communications)
Occupation	Poet, writer and playwright
Website http://www.nathaliehandal.com/

Nathalie Handal (born July 29, 1969) is a poet, writer, playwright and literary researcher of Palestinian background.^[1]^[2] She has lived in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America.^[3]

1 Biography
2 Writing career
3 Bibliography
4 References
5 External Links

[edit] Biography

Handal's family hails from from Bethlehem, but she was born in Haiti in 1969.^[1] Her parents who had lived in France, Switzerland and Boston, introduced her to French and Arabic literature.

Handal began writing creatively in high school, and also acted in plays, danced and sang in school productions. Later, at Simmons College, she was introduced to literary journals and magazines, and started writing poetry. She graduated from Simmons with a a Master of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Communications. Subsequently, Handal earned a MPhil in English and Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London, and a MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College, Vermont.^[4]

[edit] Writing career

Handal has published two anthologies of poems, two books of poetry, and several plays. Her stories and poems have also been anthologized in several literary periodicals.

The Poetry of Arab Women, an anthology edited by Handal, introduced several Arabian women poets to a wider audience in the west and is used in several university classes.^[1] It was an Academy of American Poets bestseller and won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. Her book The Lives of Rain was shortlisted for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

She has given lectures on Ethnic-American literature at the Sorbonne in Paris.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry

The Lives of Rain
The Neverfield Poem
The Poetry of Arab Women (Editor)
Language for a New Century (Editor)

Plays

Between Our Lips
The Details of Silence
The Oklahoma Quartet
The Stonecutters
The Details of Silence
La Cosa Dei Sogni

CDs

Traveling Rooms (1999) (collaboration with Russian musicians Vladimir Miller and Alexander Alexandrov)
Spell (collaboration with Egyptian musician Will Soliman)

Essays

Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile at Progressive.org

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c Nathalie Handal, writer is ambassador for W. Asia. Reuters, oneindia.com (2006-12-21). Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
^ Nathalie Handal. International PEN. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.
^ Handal, Nathalie (2004), “My country, my words:Reflections on a life as a writer”, in Darraj, Susan Muaddi, Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 37-48, ISBN 0275981762
^ "Nathalie Handal" (Fall 2005). Literati Magazine.