Adania Shibli

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Adania Shibli
Shibli reads for the National Book Foundation in 2020
Shibli reads for the National Book Foundation in 2020
Born1974
Palestine
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • playwright
  • short story writer
  • professor
LanguageArabic
Alma materUniversity of East London

Adania Shibli (Arabic: عدنية شبلي‎) is a Palestinian author and essayist. She was born in Palestine [1] in 1974.[2][3]

Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh on January 14, 2016 at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. Shibli appears second from the right.

Personal Life and Education[]

Shibli holds a Ph.D. from the University of East London in Media and Cultural Studies.[4] Her dissertation is titled Visual Terror: A Study of the Visual Compositions of the 9/11 Attacks and Major Attacks in the 'War on Terror' by British and French Television Networks.[5] She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the EUME c/o the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.[6] Shibli has taught at the University of Nottingham, and since 2013, has worked as a part-time professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine.[7]

Shibli and her children split their time between Jerusalem and Berlin.[8] Shibli speaks Arabic, English, Hebrew, French, Korean, and German.[9]

Writing career[]

Since 1996, Shibli has published in literary magazines in Europe and the Middle East.[10] Since then, she has expanded her work to include novels, plays, short stories, and narrative essays, published in numerous languages in anthologies, art books, and literary and cultural magazines.[11]

Her non-fiction works include the art book Dispositions (Ramallah: Qattan), and a collected of essays called A Journey of Ideas Across: In Dialogue with Edward Said (Berlin: HKW).[12] The collection of essays was turned into a symposium curated by Shibli in 2013, which took place at the House of World Cultures in Berlin.[13] She invited artists and academics to reflect on the work and ideas of Edward W. Said, a theorist and critic known for his 1978 book Orientalism.

Works[]

  • Minor Detail (تفصيل ثانوي), Fitzcarraldo Editions / New Directions, 2020, ISBN 9780811229074
  • Keep your eye on the wall: Palestinian landscapes, Saqi Books, London, 2013, ISBN 9780863567599
  • We are all equally far from love (Kulluna Ba’id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub) (كلنا بعيد بذات المقدار عن الحب), Clockroot Books, Northampton, MA, 2012, ISBN 9781566568630
  • Touch (Masaas) (مساس), Clockroot Books, Northampton, MA, 2010, ISBN 9781566568074

Awards[]

Shibli has received the Young Writer’s Award–Palestine by the A. M. Qattan Foundation for her novels Touch in 2001 and We are all equally far from love in 2003.[14] She was named as one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the age of 40 chosen through a contest organized by Banipal magazine and the Hay Festival. Minor Detail, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, was shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature.[15] In 2021, Minor Detail was also longlisted for the International Booker Prize.[16]

References[]

  1. ^ [1] (Kulturaustausch. Zeitschrift für internationale Persepktiven)
  2. ^ "Adania Shibli". The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Pen America. Archived from the original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2016-07-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Adania Shibli Archived 2016-08-05 at the Wayback Machine(clockroot books)
  5. ^ [2] research open access repository
  6. ^ "Adania Shibli — internationales literaturfestival berlin". www.literaturfestival.com. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  7. ^ "shibli-adania". RCW Literary Agency. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  8. ^ "Adania Shibli". www.ndbooks.com. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  9. ^ "The Words Will Find Their Place: Adania Shibli Interviewed by Mireille Juchau - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  10. ^ "Adania Shibli". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  11. ^ "shibli-adania". RCW Literary Agency. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  12. ^ "shibli-adania". RCW Literary Agency. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  13. ^ "Adania Shibli — internationales literaturfestival berlin". www.literaturfestival.com. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  14. ^ Adania Shibli(Arab Women Writers)
  15. ^ "National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  16. ^ "The 2021 International Booker Prize longlist announcement | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
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