Samer Abu Hawwash

Samer Abu Hawwash (born 1972) is a Palestinian writer and translator.

He was born in Lebanon to a Palestinian refugee family.

He has published around ten volumes of poetry, starting with his debut collection Life is Printed in New York (1997).

He is also a prolific translator of English-language fiction and non-fiction.

Among his notable translations are works by Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Yann Martel, Hanif Kureishi, Denis Johnson and Marilynne Robinson.