poetry

The Norwegian novelist, playwright, and poet talks to Al Majalla about silence, literature, and everything in between

This Japanese art form reveals 'a bitter awareness of the frailty of human existence and the impermanence of nature,' one of its most perceptive proponents tells Al Majalla.

With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.

To commemorate 50 years since the celebrated Italian poet was murdered, France has, for the first time, published a translation of his final prose collection

The Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, preserves the memory of Edgar Allan Poe—a writer whose life was as haunted and complex as his fiction

Al Majalla interviews the Lebanese writer about his new award-winning novel on his life in Paris and how living in the French capital shaped his intellectual formation

Weighed down by tragedy and mental health issues, she is known for being one of the most unique Scandinavian voices of the 20th century. Al Majalla looks back at her life 30 years after her passing.

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

The US-based writer does not hold back in what he pens for American readers, nor is he censored. There is just one word that he is forbidden from using.

Taha Muhammad Ali felt the lifelong pain of displacement after Israeli forces took control of his beloved village in 1948. A pared-back one-man show of his life leaves the audience thinking of Gaza.