Jawdat Fakhreddine

Jawdat Fakhreddine is a Lebanese poet and professor emeritus of Arabic literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut. He was born in 1953 in a small village in southern Lebanon. He has published more than twelve poetry collections and two works of literary criticism. He regularly contributed to newspapers and journals across the Arab world.  His collection of children’s poems, Thirty Poems for Children, won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for that category in 2014. It has since appeared in an English and a French translation from Bookland Press, Canada. His poetry has been translated to French, German, and English. Translated works include Lighthouse of the Drowning (BOA Editions, 2017) and The Sky that Denied Me (University of Texas Press, 2020). He teaches Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut and his most recent collection Fī shu\’ʾūn al-basīrah (Matters of Vision) just came out from Dar al-Nahda, Beirut.