THE POETRY OF TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI

Organisation: Jewish Book Week

Time: 19 February 2012 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Place: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Jewish Book Week Presents:

ADINA HOFFMAN: THE POETRY OF TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI

Adina Hoffman’s Jewish Quarterly-Wingate-Prize-winning biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is a moving account of the ways “ordinary” individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war and peace. Beautifully written, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. It also reflects on the often alchemical means by which experience is transformed into art. “A remarkable book,” according to Boyd Tonkin in the Independent. “A triumph of personal empathy and historical insight, and a beacon for anyone who knows that ‘more joins than separates us.’”

Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, which was awarded the 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. She is also the recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.
This event will last approx. 60 minutes

Spoken Word | Sunday, 19 February 2012 | 12:30
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Tickets £9.50

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