Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. His novels include I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, The Corpse Washer, The Baghdad Eucharist, and The Book of Collateral Damage. Antoon’s works have been translated into sixteen languages. His essays and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and Journal of World Literature. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators Association Award and his translation of Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance was long-listed for the 2025 International Booker Prize. He is an associate professor at New York University.