Bio

Nathalie Handal is the author of 10 award winning books, translated into over 15 languages, most recently Life in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award; and the flash collection The Republics, winner of the Arab American Book Award and the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing. She is the editor of two bestselling anthologies and has worked in over 20 theatrical productions. Handal is the recipient of awards from the PEN Foundation, Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Africa Institute, among others. She is professor of literature and creative writing at New York University-Abu Dhabi, and writes the literary travel column, “The City and the Writer,” for Words Without Borders.