Izzat Ghazzawi
Izzat Ghazzawi ( Arabic عزت الغزاوي, DMG ʿIzzat al-Ġazzāwī ; * 1951 in Dayr al-Ghusoun , Tulkarm Governorate , West Bank ; † April 4, 2003 in Ramallah ) was a Palestinian writer and President of the Palestinian Writers Union.
Ghazzawi studied English literature. As a writer, he was mainly a novelist, short story writer and critic. In his work, Ghazzawi dealt with the suffering of the Palestinian population and endeavored to promote cultural exchange and political dialogue with Israel. He was particularly influenced by the Israeli writer Horvitz Yaeer . Ghazzawi has been censored by the Israeli authorities for his political activities and has been arrested several times.
Several months after the death of his sixteen year old son - this was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the schoolyard when he made a wounded friend Help - published Ghazzawi along with the Israeli writer Abraham B. Jehoshua a band with pictures of Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani about the Relations between the Palestinian and Israeli people. The work has been sold over 6 million times and has been translated into several languages.
After his return from exile in 1982, he taught comparative literature at the University of Bir Zait in Ramallah. He became a board member of the Palestinian Advisory Council for Peace and Justice. In 1995 he was awarded the International Freedom of Expression Prize in Stavanger . In 1997, Ghazzawi organized and led the first international writers' congress in Palestine. In 2001 Ghazzawi received the Sakharov Prize awarded by the European Parliament together with the Israeli lecturer Nurit Peled-Elhanan .
Together with the Israeli writer Amos Oz , Ghazzawi was a lecturer in 2002 with How to cure fanatics as part of the Tuebingen poetics lectureship .
Publications
- Letters underway (1989)
- The Edges (1993)
- Nebo Mountain (1995)
- Abdullah At-Tilali (1997)
Web links
- Article (PDF; 21 kB) about the 2001 Sakharov Prize winners on the European Parliament website, December 11, 2001
- Izzat Ghazzawi dies , Welt Online , April 9, 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 9, 2003, No. 84, p. 38
- ↑ 1988-2008 Sakharov Prize for Intellectual Freedom ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Brochure, 2008; PDF; 1.9 MB)
- ^ Website of the Sakharov Prize
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghazzawi, Izzat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dayr al-Ghusoun , Tulkarm Governorate , West Bank |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 2003 |
| Place of death | Ramallah |