Golan Haji

Golan Haji, (Arabic: جولان حاجي) a Syrian Kurdish writer, poet, and translator, who was born in 1977. He has published three poetry collections including the "Dark Club", which won the first prize in the Muhammad Al-Maghout Poetry Competition in 2006. He has translated several books from English into Arabic such as "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" by Yasunari Kawabata and the "Dark Harbor" by Mark Strand.

Education and career[]

Golan Haji, a poet and writer, was born in Amouda which is a Kurdish town in the north of Syria in 1977.^[1] He lived in Damascus and then moved to settle in Paris.^[2] He studied at the University of Damascus and earned a bachelor's degree in medicine and a postgraduate degree in pathology. Haji started his literary career when he published his first collection of poetry "Called in Darkness" in 2004 which won the Muhammad Al-Maghout Prize in poetry.^[3] Then, in 2008, he published his second collection of poetry named "Someone Sees You as a Monster" which was published during the even celebrating Damascus as the Capital of culture.^[2][1] In 2016, Haji also published a book of prose which he interviewed a number of Syrian women who spoke about their experience and stories during the Syrian war.^[4] Haji has also translated several English books into Arabic including "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" by Yasunari Kawabata, and the "Dark Harbor" by Mark Strand.^[5][2]

Works[]

• "Called in Darkness" (original title: Nada fi Al Dolomat), 2004
• “Someone Sees You as a Monster” (original title: thamata mat yaraka wahshan), 2008
• “The Balance of Harm” (original title: Mizan Al Atha), 2016

Books[]

• “Until the War: Women in the Syrian Revolution” (original title: ila an kamat al harb: nesaa fi thawra al Suryiaa), 2016

Translation[]

• “Al Mirfaa al Muthlim” (original title: Dark Harbor), 2002
• “Dafatr modelima” (original title: The Secret Notebooks), 2011
• “Stevenson tahta Ashgar al Nakheel” (original title: Stevenson Under the Palm Trees), 2017
• “Hai Asakosa” (original title: Palm-of-the-hand Stories), 2019

Awards[]

• 2006: He won the first prize in the Muhammad Al-Maghout Poetry Competition for his collections of poetry "Called in the Darkness".

References[]

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