[New-Poetry] Darwish obit

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Celebrated  Palestinian poet dies in US hospital
Mahmoud Darwish, 67, leaves behind  legacy of over two-dozen books of poetry 
and prose spanning a nearly five-decade  career
By Agence France Presse (AFP) 
Monday, August 11, 2008
OBITUARY

Majeda El Batsh
Agence France Presse

JERUSALEM: Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest poets  in 
Palestine and the wider Arab world, died Saturday in a US hospital following  
open-heart surgery. He was being treated at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in  
Houston, Texas. According to a friend in Jerusalem who preferred to remain  
anonymous, the 67-year-old writer was placed on life support two days ago  
following complications arising from the surgery.
 
Darwish published more than two-dozen books of poetry and prose over a  
career spanning nearly five decades and his poetry has been translated into more  
than 20 languages. Rooted in his experience of national exile, his work 
captured  the Palestinian experience of war, exile, and the struggle for national  
self-determination.
 




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