Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal is from Bethlehem, Palestine, was raised in France and Latin America, and educated in the United Kingdom, the USA and the Arab world. 

Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Kumunyakaa writes, “This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders…One of the most important voices of her generation.”

She is the author of numerous books, most recently the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía, whichAlice Walker lauds as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve,” and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, which The New York Times says is “a book that trembles with belonging (and longing).” Handal is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, winner of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature, and Honored Finalist for the Gift of Freedom Award, among other honors. She writes the literary travel column The City and the Writer for Words without Borders.

From the Wild River Review Archives: Love and Strange Horses – An Interview with Nathalie Handal

ALL ARTICLES BY NATHALIE HANDAL:

POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY – Confessions at Midrange: The Voices and Faces of Palestine – Summer, 2014