Remembering Ghassan Kanafani: To Read, Watch, Listen
Celebrated novelist and short-story writer Ghassan Kanafani was born on this day in Almost fifty years have passed since his assassination at the age of just
There is an urgency to Kanafani&#;s writing, both in its substance and the insistent movements of its style. He wrote intensely and prolifically: novellas, short stories, playtexts, literary criticism, and journalism, producing a wide body of work, including 18 books, before he died in a car bombing at
In a remembrance published in Al-Fanar in , Kanafani&#;s friend and colleague Fadle Naqib noted: “He loved writing, and he wrote in the way that you and I would breathe. He would write news, he would write editorials, he would write something about society and then literary criticism. I said to him, ‘You are not a human being, you are a writing machine!’”
Kanafani would spend a day working at his newspaper, the profile notes, and then &#;he would go home and write fiction.&#;
Kanafani worked as an editor of al&#;Huriyyah and Muhallaq Filastin in Lebanon, and then as founding editor of al-Hadaf, where he wor
Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani was born in Acre. His father was Fayiz Kanafani, a lawyer, and his mother was A’isha al-Salim. He had five brothers, Ghazi, Marwan, Adnan, Numan and Hassan; and two sisters, Fayzah and Suha. He was married to a Danish national, Anni Høver, and they had two children, Fayiz and Laila.
He attended the Collège des Frères in Jaffa. When he was twelve years old, he and his family were forced to leave Jaffa before it fell to the Zionist forces in ; they sought refuge in Lebanon. The family then left Lebanon for Syria and settled in Damascus.
In exile, he worked at a printing press; he later distributed newspapers and worked in a restaurant. In the daytime and at night he pursued his studies until he obtained the intermediate school certificate in , and then he worked as an art teacher in UNRWA schools in Damascus.
His contact with Arab political activists who had established the Arab Nationalist Movement began in After he met George Habash, he began to write for the weekly magazine al-Ra’i.
After obtaining his secondary school certificate, Kanafani joined his sister in Kuwait in where he worked as an art and athletics teacher. While working as a
“A Race Against Time”: The life and death of Ghassan Kanafani
Acclaimed journalist, novelist, short story writer, and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated in by agents of the Mossad. His widow, Danish-born Anni Kanafani, published a short biography of his life one year later; in her tribute, she offered readers an inside view of Kanafani&#;s life as a father, husband, and uncle, as well as his drive and passion to write. In this important and powerful book, Palestine Writes Press re-introduces Anni Kanafani&#;s writing to the world.
This new volume includes an Arabic translation, as well as a compelling introduction by historian and literary scholar Louis Allday, as well as a moving foreword by Dr. Fadle Naqib, a childhood friend of Ghassan Kanafani. Complete with an updated selective bibliography of Kanafani&#;s work, this book is an essential addition to the canon of Palestinian literature.
Palestine Writes Press was launched in to give writers across the Palestinian diaspora a platform to share their literary works and vision. It is a project of Palestine Writes Festival, the first Palestinian literary festival in North America.
The book will
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