سامر أبو هواش

Samer Abu Hawwash is a Palestinian poet, novelist and translator, born in 1972 in Lebanon to a family of Palestinian refugees. He studied journalism at the Lebanese University, graduating in 1996, and has worked in the cultural press since the mid-1990s. He has published around ten poetry collections, beginning with "Life is Printed in New York" (1997), along with novels, and is a prolific translator of American literature into Arabic, including Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Yann Martel, Hanif Kureishi, Denis Johnson and Marilynne Robinson.