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Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim, and Kresge. The United Nations granted her Human Rights Watch Award for freedom of writing and Arab America listed her as 'one of ten modern Arab writers who should make Arabs proud'. According to the Christian Science Monitor, 'Dunya Mikhail is one of the foremost poets of our time'. She currently works as a special lecturer of Arabic and poetry at Oakland University in Michigan.

'a collection of limpid meditations which demand that we pause as we read [...] profoundly thought-through work'

Fiona Sampson, Guardian Poetry Review Roundup

'In Her Feminine Sign is a wise and innovative set of poems which ask us to consider not only what it means to be living away from home, but how home can shift depending on a number of variables.'

Anthony Anaxagorou, PBS Autumn Bulletin

'Here is the new Iraqi poetry: terse, unadorned, stripped and ironic...her voice is the inescapable voice of Arab poetry today.'
Pierre Joris 'Everything about this is celebration and welcome: context, vision, information, critical perspective...'
Kamau Brathwaite
'Dunya Mikhail is a woman who speaks like the disillusioned goddesses of Babylon. Blunt as well as subtle, she makes of war a distinct entity, thus turning it into a myth. To her own question: 'What does it mean to die all this death?', her poems answer that it means to reveal the only redeeming power that we have: the existence of love.'
Etel Adnan

Awards won by Dunya Mikhail Winner, 2019 A Poetry Book Society Autumn Wild Card Selection
(In Her Feminine Sign) Short-listed, 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize
(The War Works Hard) Winner, 2004 Pen Translation Fund Award
(The War Works Hard)

Dunya Mikhail's own website can be found at www.dunyamikhail.com

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Dunya Mikhail Books by this author: Tablets In Her Feminine Sign The War Works Hard About Reviews Awards Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim, and Kresge. The United Nations granted her Human Rights Watch Award for freedom of writing and Arab America listed her as 'one of ten modern Arab writers who should make Arabs proud'. According to the Christian Science Monitor, 'Dunya Mikhail is one of the foremost poets of our time'. She currently works as a special lecturer of Arabic and poetry at Oakland University in Michigan. 'a collection of limpid meditations which demand that we pause as we read [...] profoundly thought-through work' Fiona Sampson, Guardian Poetry Review Roundup 'In Her Feminine Sign is a wise and innovative set of poems which ask us to consider not only what it means to be living away from home, but how home can shift depending on a number of variables.' Anthony Anaxagorou, PBS Autumn Bulletin 'Here is the new Iraqi poetry: terse, unadorned, stripped and ironic...her voice is the inescapable voice of Arab poetry today.' Pierre Joris 'Everything about this is celebration and welcome: context, vision, information, critical perspective...' Kamau Brathwaite 'Dunya Mikhail is a woman who speaks like the disillusioned goddesses of Babylon. Blunt as well as subtle, she makes of war a distinct entity, thus turning it into a myth. To her own question: 'What does it mean to die all this death?', her poems answer that it means to reveal the only redeeming power that we have: the existence of love.' Etel Adnan Awards won by Dunya Mikhail Winner, 2019 A Poetry Book Society Autumn Wild Card Selection (In Her Feminine Sign) Short-listed, 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize (The War Works Hard) Winner, 2004 Pen Translation Fund Award (The War Works Hard) Dunya Mikhail's own website can be found at www.dunyamikhail.com	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog Not a Moment Too Soon: Frank Kuppner read more Coco Island: Christine Roseeta Walker read more that which appears: Thomas A Clark read more Come Here to This Gate: Rory Waterman read more Near-Life Experience: Rowland Bagnall read more The Silence: Gillian Clarke read more
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