He has translated several books from English into Arabic such as Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata and Dark Harbor by Mark Strand.
Golan Haji was born in Amouda, a Kurdish town in the north of Syria in 1977.
[2] In 2008, he wrote his second collection of poetry Someone Sees You as a Monster, published during the events celebrating Damascus as Arab Capital of Culture.
[3][1] In 2016, Haji also published a book of non-fiction, for which he interviewed Syrian women who spoke about their experience and stories during the war in Syria.
[4] Further, Haji translated several literary works from English into Arabic, including the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, the Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, and Dark Harbor by Canadian-American poet Mark Strand.