is a poet, critic and literary editor. He lives in Jerusalem, Palestine and contributes to Palestinian cultural life through several projects and initiatives. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and have appeared in a number of publications around the world.
Critic Bashir Abu-Manneh, Professor of Literature at Barnard College (Colombia University), wrote: “Najwan Darwish’s poetry is different: it seems to have overcome the false dichotomy between poetry and social and political reality. What struck me first about reading his poems is his capacity to do justice to both poetry (to image, to condensed form) while also doing justice to its surrounding real. This is a significant challenge: how to mediate between two intense forms without ruining either. What these poems convey (through their clarity and moral honesty) is a poetic voice, a figure, who is sharp, critical, and clear, and wishes to look reality in the face poetically”.
