Marwa Helal
Marwa Helal | |
|---|---|
| Native name | مروة هلال |
| Born | Mansurah, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater | |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | 2021 Whiting Award |
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Marwa Helal (مروة هلال) is an Egyptian poet born in Mansurah, Egypt. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.[1] She was a 2021 Whiting Award winner.[2]
Poetry[edit]
In 2016, Helal won the Bomb Poetry Contest, judged by Bhanu Kapil.[3] Her full-length collection Invasive species was released by Nightboat Books in 2019.[4]
She has been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the NYSCA, Poets House, and the Cave Canem Foundation.
Invasive species[edit]
In 2019, Harvard professor and critic Stephanie Burt wrote of Invasive species in the New York Times, “Helal’s title puns on the ecological concept of invasive species...and on the notion that immigrants cannot belong here. The poet may be safe in Brooklyn now, but how many others — how many other Arabic speakers, how many Arab-Americans, how many African-Americans — are not? How many are still seen, and by whom, as illegitimate, or as invaders?...Such questions generate Helal’s best work...she [Helal] explains, ‘how i learn to push against the page.’ It is a push that could, and should, open doors.”[5]
Invasive species was the honorable mention in poetry for the 2020 Arab American Book Award.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ Burt, Stephanie (20 March 2019). "An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ↑ "Marwa Helal". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ↑ "Marwa Helal - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org.
- ↑ Helal, Marwa (2019). Invasive Species. Nightboat Books. ISBN 978-1-937658-93-9. Retrieved 25 October 2021. Search this book on
- ↑ Burt, Stephanie (20 March 2019). "An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ↑ "2020 Arab American Book Awards Include Award's First-ever Prize for Graphic Memoir". ArabLit ArabLit Quarterly. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
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