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    Dunya Mikhail

    Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is the author of the poetry collections The War Works Hard (shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize), Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (winner of the Arab American Book Award), The Iraqi Nights (winner of the Poetry Magazine Translation Award), and In Her Feminine Sign (chosen as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019 by The New York Public Library). Her nonfiction book The Beekeeper was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, The Bird Tattoo, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Mikhail won the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture and the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.

    Dunya Mikhail

    Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is the author of the poetry collections The War Works Hard (shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize), Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (winner of the Arab American Book Award), The Iraqi Nights (winner of the Poetry Magazine Translation Award), and In Her Feminine Sign (chosen as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019 by The New York Public Library). Her nonfiction book The Beekeeper was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, The Bird Tattoo, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Mikhail won the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture and the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.

    Books by Dunya Mikhail

    • Fifteen Iraqi Poets

      Dunya Mikhail

      Paperback, 2014

      A collection of dazzling new, contemporary from Iraq, edited by award-winning Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail

    • The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

      Dunya Mikhail, Max Weiss

      Paperback, 2018

      The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh

    • The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

      Dunya Mikhail, Max Weiss

      E Book, 2018

      The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh

    • Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

      Dunya Mikhail

      Paperback, 2024

      A gorgeous fusion of poetry and image by “one of the foremost poets of our time” (The Christian Science Monitor).

    • Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

      Dunya Mikhail

      E Book

      A gorgeous fusion of poetry and image by “one of the foremost poets of our time” (The Christian Science Monitor).

    • Poetry Pamphlets 1-12 (Boxed Set)

      Osama Alomar, Lydia Davis, Hilda Doolittle, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Forrest Gander, Oliverio Girondo, Susan Howe, Sylvia Legris, Bernadette Mayer, Dunya Mikhail, Alejandra Pizarnik, Nathaniel Tarn, Eliot Weinberger

      Paperback, 2015

      Collections 1-12 in New Directions' Poetry Pamphlet series

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