Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic writer, poet, and translator. He has published three collections of poetry: The Camera Doesn’t Capture Birds (1st edition Ed. Al-Anwar 2004, 2nd edition Ed. Al-Kamel 2010); Our Grief Resembles Bread (Ed. Al-Farabi 2000); and An Angel Suspended On a Clothesline (Ed. Riad El-Rayyes 2012), which has been translated into French under the title Un Ange Sur une Corde à Linge (L’Amandier Poésie, 2013) and Icelandic under the title Ekkert Nema Strokleður (Dimma, 2013). His poems have been translated into several languages including German, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Maltese, Urdo and Malay. His first short story collection titled Jokes for the Gunmen (Ed. Riad El-Rayyes 2015) was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2019).
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