Salim Barakat
Salim Barakat (Arabic: سليم بركات, Kurdish: Selîm Berekat; born 1 September 1951 in Qamishli) is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He is considered one of the innovative poets and novelists writing in Arabic. Since the 1970s, he has published numerous novels, poetry collections, biographies and children's books.
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Salim Barakat
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- 1951. · Qamishli.
- Nationality
- Kurdistan, Sweden and Syria.
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- poet and writer.
- Honours
- Kurt Tucholsky Prize.
- Languages
- Arabic.
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Salim Barakat (Arabic: سليم بركات, Kurdish: Selîm Berekat; born 1 September 1951 in Qamishli) is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He is considered one of the innovative poets and novelists writing in Arabic. Since the 1970s, he has published numerous novels, poetry collections, biographies and children's books.
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Several of his works have been translated into Kurdish, English, French, German, Swedish and other languages.
He wrote about Kurdish culture, as well as Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Circassian and Yazidi culture. His earliest major prose work, Al-Jundub al-Hadidi (The Iron Grasshopper), is an autobiography of his childhood in Qamishli. Stefan G. Meyer said "Barakat's style is probably the closest by any Arab writer's to that of Latin American magical realism" and has called Barakat "perhaps the master prose stylist writing in Arabic today". In the 2006 anthology Literature from the "Axis of Evil", an excerpt from his novel Jurists of Darkness (1985) in English was published by Words Without Borders. According to online magazine Literary hub, Barakat had been one of the official candidates for the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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An excerpt from his novel Jurists of Darkness. In: Literature from the Axis of Evil: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Other Enemy Nations: A Words Without Borders Anthology. 2006. New York: New Press. Salīm Barakāt, Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen. 2021. Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems. London: Seagull Books, ISBN 9781803091952. Salīm Barakāt and Huda J. Fakhreddine. 2024. The Universe, All at Once: Selected Poems. London: Seagull Books, ISBN 9781803094038.
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Salim Barakat born at Qamishli.
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- 6 Salim Barakat: Poetry as Linguistic Conquest, The Arabic Prose Poem, 2021
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- Salim Barakat: Poetry as Linguistic Conquest, The Arabic Prose Poem, 2021
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- 1.Nassar, Hala Khamis. Mahmoud Darwish, exile's poet: critical essays. Interlink Books. 342. 2008. 978-1-56656-664-3.
- 2.Banipal (UK). Contributor's Profile - Salim Barakat.
- 3.Meyer, Stefan G. The experimental Arabic novel: postcolonial literary modernism in the Levant. SUNY Press. 87–88. 2001. 0-7914-4733-2.
- 4.Literature from the Axis of Evil – Telegraph Blogs. News - Telegraph Blogs. 2012-03-10.
- 5.Some Predictions For Who (Should) Win the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature. Literary Hub. 2022-09-30.
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