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Ramsey Nasr and Ruth Padel - World Literature Weekend 2011
Saturday 18 June 2011
Born 1974 in Rotterdam into a Palestinian-Dutch family, Ramsey Nasr is a man of many passions, including classical music, drama, poetry and travel. As city poet of Antwerp in 2005 his appearances were attended like pop concerts. Banipal’s publication of Heavenly Life, a collection of his poems translated by David Colmer, brings his work for the first time to an English-speaking audience. For poet Marilyn Hacker, ‘Ramsey Nasr is already a polyvalent literary figure in his own country and language – multi-faceted, virtuosic, irreverent and polymath. His poems, in every form and register from sonnet to Whitmanian tirade, do not balk at history, whether that of his family’s situation in the West Bank or the fate of Dutch Jewish musicians and Mahler’s music during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands – to name but two stopping points.’
Ramsey Nasr and Ruth Padel in conversation – part I
Listen now (27:48) | Download (MP3, 26.7MB)
Ramsey Nasr and Ruth Padel in conversation – part II
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