Shimon Ballas

Outcast

Übersetzer: Alcalay, Ammiel; Shelach, Oz

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Produktbeschreibung

"Tells more about Iraq than many commentaries being offered up these days." --Le Monde

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 127mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780872864818
• ISBN-10: 0872864812
• Artikelnr.: 21373947

Autorenporträt

Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and emigrated to Israel in 1951. A major novelist, Ballas has published fifteen works of fiction, several important studies on contemporary Arabic literature, and numerous translations from Arabic. Although he began his career in Arabic, Ballas switched to Hebrew in the mid 1960s. Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic and scholar who teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is the Deputy Chair of the PhD Program in English. His latest work is Scrapmetal (Factory School, 2006). He is also editor and translator of Keys to the Garden, and Semezdin Mehmedinovic's Sarajevo Blues, both published by City Lights. Oz Shelach, author and journalist, was born in West Jerusalem in 1968.