Nathalie Handal
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Nathalie Handal (born July 29, 1969) is a Palestinian poet, writer and playwright and a literary researcher.
Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and writer. She is the author of two poetry books, The NeverField and The Lives of Rain (short-listed for The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize/The Pitt Poetry Series and recipient of the Menada Award); two poetry CDs Traveling Rooms and Spell; the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Academy of American Poets Bestseller; winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Award); and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond (Norton, 2008). Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and she has been featured on NPR, KPFK, PBS Radio as well as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Mail & Guardian, The Jordan Times and Il Piccolo. Her poetry has also been set to music and performed at venues such as Lincoln Center; and has been featured in numerous galleries/traveling exhibitions, most recently, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago. Handal has been involved either as a writer, director or producer in over twenty theatrical and/or film productions.
Books and Audio
-Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond, Co-Editor (W.W. Norton & Co, 2008)
-The Lives of Rain (Interlink, 2005), Carolyn Forché, Foreword, ISBN 978-1-56656-602-5 (Short-listed for The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry/The Pitt Poetry Series; Translated into Spanish, Persian and Albanian.)
-The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, Editor (Interlink, 2001) ISBN 978-1-56656-374-1 (Winner of the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award; Academy of American Poets Bestseller)
-The NeverField, ISBN 978-1-56656-595-0
-Spell, POETRY CD, poetry by Nathalie Handal, music by Will Solimon (percussion), US, 2005.
-Traveling Rooms, POERTRY CD, poetry by Nathalie Handal, improvisational music by Alexandr Alexandrov (woodwinds) and Vladimir Miller (piano), Macclesfield, UK: ASC Records, 1999.
THEATRE
PLAYS (selected):
-The Oklahoma Quartet, New York Theater Workshop, 2008
-The Stonecutters, Loews Theatre/New York Theatre Workshop, May 2007.
-The Details of Silence, Symphony Space, New York City, November 2005; Claudia Cassidy Theatre, Chicago 2006.
-La Cosa Dei Sogni, The Public Theatre, New York City, 2006. Between Our Lips, Blue Heron Theatre, New York City, September 2005; The Public Theatre, New York City, 2006.
Directed (selected):
-Hi Joan!, TBG Arts Center, New York, November 2005; Hudson Mainstage Theater, Los Angeles, January 2006.
-Grenade, Upstairs at the Laugh Factory, New York City, October 2004.
-Before We Start, Kraine Theatre, November 2003.
-Living it up on Long Island, Assistant Director, The Two Boots Pioneer Theatre.
External links
- Nathalie Handal's official website
- Profile of Nathalie Handal at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Nathalie Handal in Persian
References and sources
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