Ounsi el-Hajj

Ounsi el-Hajj was born on 27 July 1937 in Jezzine, the son of the journalist and translator Louis el-Hage. He published while still at school, joined Al-Hayat in 1956 and then An-Nahar, where he founded the cultural supplement Al-Mulhaq in 1964, and co-founded the review Shiʿr in 1957 with Yusuf al-Khal and Adonis. Editor-in-chief of An-Nahar from 1992 to 2003, a translator of Shakespeare, Ionesco, Camus and Brecht, he died in Beirut on 18 February 2014.

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• PoetryلنOunsi el-Hajj · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature