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The page of Yahia Lababidi, English biography

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Yahia Lababidi
(1973–)
 

Biography

Yahia Lababidi is an aphorist, Pushcart-nominated poet with work appearing in such publications as World Literature Today, Cimarron Review, AGNI, Hotel Amerika, Rain Taxi and Philosophy Now and internationally published writer of Egyptian - Lebanese origin. His first book, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press) was selected as a Book of the Year, 2008, by The Independent (UK). Meantime, his latest works are, "Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing" a collection of literary and cultural essays, as well as "Fever Dreams" a poetry collection from Crisis Chronicles Press. To date, Lababidi’s writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish.

Otherwise, his work appears in several anthologies, including: Geary’s Guide to the World's Great Aphorists as well as the best-selling US college textbook, Literature: an Introduction to Reading and Writing (10th edition). Lababidi was chosen as a Juror for the 2012 Neustadt Prize (a biannual award widely considered the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature).

Sources:
https://www.poemhunter.com/yahia-lababidi/biography/
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yahia_lababidi
https://www.pw.org/content/yahia_lababidi
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/yahialababidi.htm
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yahia_Lababidi
http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2013/08/yahia-lababidi/

(Editor of this page: Répás Norbert)

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