Golan Haji

Golan Haji, (Arabic: جولان حاجي) a Syrian Kurdish writer, poet, and translator, who was born in 1977. He has published three poetry collections including the "Dark Club", which won the first prize in the Muhammad Al-Maghout Poetry Competition in 2006. He has translated several books from English into Arabic such as "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" by Yasunari Kawabata and the "Dark Harbor" by Mark Strand.

Golan Haji
Born1977
Amouda, Syria
Resting placeParis
Alma materUniversity of Damascus
Occupation(s)writer, poet, translator

Education and career

Golan Haji, a poet and writer, was born in Amouda which is a Kurdish town in the north of Syria in 1977.[1] He lived in Damascus and then moved to settle in Paris.[2] He studied at the University of Damascus and earned a bachelor's degree in medicine and a postgraduate degree in pathology. Haji started his literary career when he published his first collection of poetry "Called in Darkness" in 2004 which won the Muhammad Al-Maghout Prize in poetry.[3] Then, in 2008, he published his second collection of poetry named "Someone Sees You as a Monster" which was published during the even celebrating Damascus as the Capital of culture.[2][1] In 2016, Haji also published a book of prose which he interviewed a number of Syrian women who spoke about their experience and stories during the Syrian war.[4] Haji has also translated several English books into Arabic including "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" by Yasunari Kawabata, and the "Dark Harbor" by Mark Strand.[5][2]

Works
  • "Called in Darkness" (original title: Nada fi Al Dolomat), 2004
  • “Someone Sees You as a Monster” (original title: thamata mat yaraka wahshan), 2008
  • “The Balance of Harm” (original title: Mizan Al Atha), 2016

Books
  • “Until the War: Women in the Syrian Revolution” (original title: ila an kamat al harb: nesaa fi thawra al Suryiaa), 2016

Translation
  • “Al Mirfaa al Muthlim” (original title: Dark Harbor), 2002
  • “Dafatr modelima” (original title: The Secret Notebooks), 2011
  • “Stevenson tahta Ashgar al Nakheel” (original title: Stevenson Under the Palm Trees), 2017
  • “Hai Asakosa” (original title: Palm-of-the-hand Stories), 2019

Awards
  • 2006: He won the first prize in the Muhammad Al-Maghout Poetry Competition for his collections of poetry "Called in the Darkness".

References
  1. "Golan Haji جولان حاجي". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. "Contributor". Words without Borders. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  3. إسماعيل, عايد (6 December 2006). "ديوانه الأول "نادى في الظلمات" فاز بجائزة الماغوط . جولان حاجي يقتفي أثر الصوت الشعري". Sauress. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  4. "جولان حاجي.. "إلى أن قامت الحرب" كتاب يرصد تجربة نساء سوريات في الثورة". France 24. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  5. ""دكتور جيكل ومستر هايد" تحفة أدبية نادرة". Al Joumhouria. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2020.


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