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Syrian-Kurdish writer and translator
Golan Haji
Native name
جولان حاجي
Born 10 November 1977Amouda , Syria Occupation writer, poet, translator Citizenship Syria Alma mater University of Damascus Years active 2004-present Notable works He Called Out Within The Darknesses , poetry collectionNotable awards Muhammad-al-Maghout Prize
Golan Haji (Arabic : جولان حاجي ; born 10. November 1977) is a Syrian Kurdish writer, poet, and translator. He has published five poetry collections in Arabic, including He Called Out Within The Darknesses , which won the first prize in the Muhammad Al-Maghout Poetry Competition in 2006. He has translated several books from English into Arabic such as Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata and Dark Harbor by Mark Strand . Some of his works are part of Syrian literature in the context of war .
Life and career
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Golan Haji was born in Amouda , a Kurdish town in the north of Syria in 1977.[1] He studied at the University of Damascus and earned a bachelor's degree in medicine and a postgraduate degree in pathology . Haji started his literary career when he published his first collection of poetry He Called Out Within The Darknesses in 2004 that was awarded the Muhammad Al-Maghout Prize in poetry.[2] In 2008, he wrote his second collection of poetry Someone Sees You as a Monster , published during the events celebrating Damascus as Arab Capital of Culture .[3] [1]
In 2016, Haji also published a book of non-fiction, for which he interviewed Syrian women who spoke about their experience and stories during the war in Syria .[4] Further, Haji translated several literary works from English into Arabic , including the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson , the Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata , and Dark Harbor by Canadian-American poet Mark Strand.[5] [3]
A prolific translator from French to Arabic, Haji has translated 38 works of poetry until 2024.[6] His own Arabic poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian and Danish.[7] Since 2012, exiled because of the war in Syria, Haji has lived in Saint-Denis , France. He is married to French writer and translator Nathalie Bontemps.[8]
Works
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Arabic poetry
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He Called Out Within The Darknesses (original title: Nada al dulumat), 2004
Someone Sees You as a Monster (original title: Thamata mat yaraka wahshan), 2008
Autumn, Here, is Magical and Vast , 2013[9]
Scale of Injury (original title: Mizan al atha), 2016
The Word Rejected , 2023
In English translation
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A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know . Translated by Stephen Watts and Golan Haji, New York: A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2017.
Non-fiction
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Until the War: Women in the Syrian Revolution (original title: ila an kamat al harb: nisaa fi thawra al suryia ), 2016
Translations from English
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Al Mirfaa al Muthlim (original title: Dark Harbor ), 2002
Dafatr modelima (original title: The Secret Notebooks ), 2011
Stevenson tahta Ashgar al Nakheel (original title: Stevenson Under the Palm Trees ), 2017
Hai Asakosa (original title: Palm-of-the-hand Stories ), 2019
Awards
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See also
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Further reading
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References
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^ a b "Golan Haji" . Words without Borders . Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
^ "جولان حاجي..『إلى أن قامت الحرب』كتاب يرصد تجربة نساء سوريات في الثورة" . France 24 . 7 September 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
^ " "دكتور جيكل ومستر هايد" تحفة أدبية نادرة" . Al Joumhouria . 16 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2020 .
^ https://www.idref.fr/169159272
^ "Golan Haji - Search Results" . search.worldcat.org . Retrieved 8 April 2024 .
^ "Golan Haji & Marilyn Hacker on the Inseparable Natures of Writing and Translating" . ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY . 8 April 2024. Retrieved 8 April 2024 .
^ Walch, Louis (1 March 2013). " "Autumn Here is Magical and Vast" by Golan Haji" . Words Without Borders . Retrieved 8 April 2024 .
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