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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Musa Hawamdeh is a Palestinian poet, born in the town of Al-Samou’ in Hebron Governorate in 1959 AD. He studied high school in the city of Hebron and was arrested more than once when he was a student there. He joined the University of Jordan to study in the Faculty of Arts and was arrested in the second year and imprisoned in a single cell for three months and expelled from the university. for one year, then he returned. He graduated from the Department of Arabic Language in 1982.
his career
He began publishing his poems in the supplement to Al-Dustour Al-Thaqafi newspaper in the early eighties when he was a student and published his first collection of poetry entitled “Shaghb” (1988 in Amman). He was prevented from traveling and working until the era of democracy began in Jordan, so he joined the work of Al-Shaab newspaper, then Al-Dustour, then he worked as editor-in-chief in Al-Arab Al-Youm newspaper, and he is currently working as the editor-in-chief of the cultural department in the Jordanian constitution.
His work is the source of his fatigue
Shaghab was the first collection of poetry published in 1988.
In 1998, he published his second collection of poetry, “You Increase Heaven and Gardens,” which are love poems.
After that, he published his third collection of poetry, Shajari Al-Ala (in 1999 by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing in Beirut), which brought him the wrath of Islamic extremists who shed his blood. Then the Diwan was confiscated by the Jordanian Ministry of Information in March of 2000 and presented to the Sharia Court on May 5 of the same year. He was tried before the Sharia courts five times, as the Court of Appeal refused to reject the case, and when the Sharia courts finished the case in late 2001, the Ministry of Information represented by the Department of Press and Publication filed a new case against him, and after several months, and at the end of July 2002 the court acquitted him of the charge of contempt of religion. And a violation of the Publications Law, but the Public Prosecutor appealed the ruling against him.
A decision was issued to imprison him for three months by the Amman Criminal Court for violating the Press and Publication Law, for his famous book Shajari Al-Ala, which was of course confiscated in Jordan.
The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing published his fourth book of poetry (The Last Testament of Moses), after many poems and poems were deleted from it by the Publications Department.
In 2004, he published his fifth collection of poetry, From the Side of the Sea, on the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing in Beirut.
In 2007, his sixth book of poetry was published by Dar Al-Shorouk, and it was titled “My Races of the Wind and My Addresses of Rain.” This poem won two French awards for it in 2006, namely the award of the French Oriani Foundation in Nancy, and the La Plume Award from the Terranova Poetry Festival.
In 2010, the Culture Palaces Authority in Cairo issued an anthology of poetry for him, as part of a series of Arab creativity, titled “My Descendants of the Wind, My Titles of Rain and Other Poems.”
“The Dead Run the Sky” by Dar Arabesque in Cairo in 2011, and the Egyptian General Book Authority reprinted the same collection in 2012.
A second edition of Dead Running the Sky, published by the Egyptian General Book Organization in Egypt, 2012, as part of the Arab Creativity series.
A third edition of The Wind Races within the Family Library Project / Ministry of Culture / Amman 2013.
A body for the sea, a robe for the poem, Dar Noun Emirates, 2015.
Master's thesis on his poetry
* A master's thesis on his poetry presented by the Iraqi student Abd al-Khaleq Farhan Ali al-Khatuni, entitled Artistic Structures in Musa Hawamdeh's Poetry, University of Mosul, 2013.
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Achievements and Awards
- Award of the Jordanian Writers Association for non-members in 1982 for the poem "Fraghat".
- “La Plume” (the feather) is the Grand Prix awarded by the French “Fondation Oriani” in 2006.
- French Terranova Festival Award.
- The Australian Immigrant Prize for Poetry for the year 2011.
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