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Hisham Bustani

Hisham Bustani is a Jordanian, award-winning author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. Much of his work revolves around issues related to social and political change, particularly the dystopic experience of post-colonial modernity in the Arab world. Bustani's fiction and poetry have been translated into many languages, with English-language translations appearing in prestigious journals including The Kenyon Review, The Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, and Los Angeles Review of Books. His book The Perception of Meaning (Syracuse University Press, 2015), won the University of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. The U.K.-based cultural webzine The Culture Trip has listed him as one of Jordan’s top six contemporary writers. He is also the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation's prestigious Bellagio Residency for writers for 2017.

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