Mazen Marouf
Mazen Mazouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic poet and writer who took part in poetry translations during our 2011 Reel Festival. He is regarded as a future literary star after his three collections of poetry: The Camera Doesn’t Capture Birds, Our Grief Resembles Bread and An Angel Suspended On The Clothesline were critically praised.
His work has been translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Nathalie Handal. Maarouf has read at festivals, universities, museums and cultural centers in Europe, Asia, the United States and the Middle East. He has written literary and theatre criticism in various Arabic magazines and newspapers and his poetry has appeared in literary magazines in across Europe and the US. Maarouf has translated four novels into Arabic in addition to various works of Icelandic poets. He currently lives in Iceland.
Mazen took part in the Reel Festivals 2011 poetry translation workshops and festival in the UK and Lebanon.
You can read some of Mazen Marouf’s work at Literature Across Frontiers, and Guernica Mag.
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