Mamduh Adwan

Mamduh Adwan was born in November 1941 in the village of Qayrun, near Masyaf. He went to school in Masyaf, studied English literature at the University of Damascus and lived by journalism, sometimes as a war reporter. A poet first, he published nearly twenty collections, two novels, some twenty-five plays and television serials, and rendered twenty-three English books into Arabic, including the Iliad and the Odyssey. He taught at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Art in Damascus, wrote tirelessly on Arab current affairs and died in Damascus in December 2004.

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• Poetryتلويحة الأيدي المتعبةMamduh Adwan · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature