Interview with Iman Mersal (part of Maghreb-Orient des Livres 2021 Festival)
Date July, 11 2021
Location Salons de l’hôtel de ville de Paris | Livestream on Facebook
Iman Mersal, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 Literature winner, spoke about her literary journey and winning the award for her book (In The Footsteps of Enayat Al Zayyat) on July 11 at 3:45 PM GST, as part of the Maghreb-Orient des Livres 2021 Festival.
The discussion, moderated by literary journalist Nathalie Levisalles, took place at the Salons de l'hôtel de ville de Paris, and was live-streamed on Maghreb-Orient des livres’ Facebook page, in Arabic with simultaneous French interpretation.
Speakers
Nathalie Levisalles
Literary Journalist at Libération
Iman Mersal
Egyptian poet, writer, academic and translator. She works as an Associate professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Alberta, Canada and currently resides in Marseille, France, where she holds the Albert Camus chair at IMéRA, the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University until July 2021, while working on a book entitled Al Laknah: Al Sawt fee Ghair Makaneh (Accent: the Displaced Voice). An anthology of her works was translated into more than twenty languages and she has five poetry collections published. Her most recent published works include Hatta Atakhlla Aan Fekrat Al Boyot (Until I Abandon the Idea of Homes) in 2013, Kayfa Taltaem: Aan Al Omoma wa Askhbahuha (How to Amend: On Motherhood and its Ghosts) in 2017, and Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat) in 2019. Her book, Mamar Moetem Yasloh fee Talom Al Raks (A Dark Path Suitable for Learning to Dance), is one of the most important poetry books issued by the generation of the nineties in Arabic poetry.