Hatif Janabi

[1] Born near Babylon in 1952, he studied Arabic language and literature at Baghdad University.

He has lived in Poland ever since and now teaches Arabic language and literature at Warsaw University.

Janabi has published several collections of poetry, and his work has been translated into many languages including Polish, English, French, German, Spanish and Russian.

A volume of his poems in English translation was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1996 under the title Questions and their Retinue.

He has translated some of the most important Polish writers, among them Adam Mickiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Wislawa Szymborska, Juliusz Słowacki, Zbigniew Herbert, Tadeusz Różewicz, Stanisław Grochowiak, Adam Zagajewski, Edward Stachura, Rafał Wojaczek, Ryszard Kapuściński and Leszek Kołakowski.