Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal is described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” She is
the author and/or editor of 10 award winning books, including Life
in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award; the flash
collection The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books
by one of today’s most diverse writers,” and winner of the Virginia
Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American
Book Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vanity Fair, Guernica, The
Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Irish Times, among
others. Handal is the recipient of awards from the PEN Foundation,
the Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, Centro Andaluz de las
Letras, and the Africa Institute, among others. She is professor at New
York University, and writes the literary travel column, “The City and
the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.
