Akl Awit

Awit's work, including individual poetry books and anthologies, has been published not only locally, but also translated and distributed internationally.

His family rented books from a shop called "Abou Georges" and all including his siblings, took turns in reading them.

To this day, Akl Awit is still against all political parties and believes that they are the reason why Lebanon is getting destroyed, he even showcased his anger about this topic throughout his articles in "Jaridat Al Nahar".

His first five published books were all handwritten initially, however, around 1987, Akl eventually had to shift to typing his writings onto a computer; especially since he was working as a journalist in France.

As his career flourished, Akl continued writing and publishing various poems as well as taking part in different discussions tackling his specialization and sometimes even giving lectures.

[1] In 2003, Akl published an article in An-Nahar- titled "Letter to God" (in Arabic: رسالة إلى الله) which received a "harsh" response from the people, mainly because it was very daring and unprecedented.

Because its content offended some, it resulted in several filed lawsuits against him and even an act of setting the newspaper on fire in one of the villages in the North of Lebanon.

Also in 2016, Akl Awit won the Nikos Gatsos prize for his work "L'Échapée (The Orient of books)" that year.