Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (Author) MAHMOUD DARWISH was born in 1941 in Galilee, Palestine. His family was exiled from their home in the 1948 Nakba; they were considered 'internal refugees' and were never granted Israeli citizenship. Darwish studied in Moscow and worked for literary magazines and newspapers in Cairo, Beirut, and Paris. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry and eight books of prose and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation, the Lenin Peace Prize, and the Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres Medal from France. Darwish died in 2008 in Houston, Texas.