Adania Shibli ( ar, عدنية شبلي) is a Palestinian author and essayist. She was born in Palestine in 1974.

Personal life and education

Shibli holds a Ph.D. from the

University of East London , mottoeng = Knowledge and the fulfilment of vows , established = 1898 – West Ham Technical Institute1952 – West Ham College of Technology1970 – North East London Polytechnic1989 – Polytechnic of East London ...

in Media and Cultural Studies. Her dissertation is titled ''Visual Terror: A Study of the Visual Compositions of the 9/11 Attacks and Major Attacks in the 'War on Terror' by British and French Television Networks''. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the EUME c/o the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Shibli has taught at the

University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

, and since 2013, has worked as a part-time professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine. Shibli and her children split their time between

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

and

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

. Shibli speaks Arabic, English, Hebrew, French, Korean, and German.

Writing career

Since 1996, Shibli has published in literary magazines in Europe and the Middle East. Since then, she has expanded her work to include novels, plays, short stories, and narrative essays, published in numerous languages in anthologies, art books, and literary and cultural magazines. Her non-fiction works include the art book ''Dispositions'' (Ramallah: Qattan), and a collected of essays called ''A Journey of Ideas Across: In Dialogue with Edward Said'' (Berlin: HKW). The collection of essays was turned into a symposium curated by Shibli in 2013, which took place at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. She invited artists and academics to reflect on the work and ideas of

Edward W. Said Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White ...

, a theorist and critic known for his 1978 book '' Orientalism.''

Works

*''Minor Detail'' (''تفصيل ثانوي''), Fitzcarraldo Editions / New Directions, 2020, *''Keep your eye on the wall: Palestinian landscapes'', Saqi Books, London, 2013, *''We are all equally far from love (Kulluna Ba’id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub)'' (''كلنا بعيد بذات المقدار عن الحب''), Clockroot Books, Northampton, MA, 2012, *''Touch (Masaas)'' (''مساس''), Clockroot Books, Northampton, MA, 2010,

Awards

Shibli has received the Young Writer’s Award–Palestine by the A. M. Qattan Foundation for her novels ''Touch'' in 2001 and ''We are all equally far from love'' in 2003. She was named as one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the age of 40 chosen through a contest organized by

Banipal ''Banipal'' is an independent literary magazine dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Arab literature through translations in English. It was founded in London in 1998 by Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon. The magazine is published three ti ...

magazine and the

Hay Festival The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, better known as the Hay Festival ( cy, Gŵyl Y Gelli), is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for 10 days from May to June. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, ...

. ''Minor Detail'', translated by

Elisabeth Jaquette Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award and TA First Translation Prize, and supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, ...

, was shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature. In 2021, ''Minor Detail'' was also longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

References

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