Titles

• Index | Fihris  (2015) – view details
• Ave Maria | Ya maryam (2012) – view details
• The pomegranate alone | Wahdaha shajarat al rumman (2010) – view details
• I’jam: An Iraqi rhapsody | I’jam (2004)
• The Bagdad blues

Biography

Sinan Antoon (Baghdad, 1967) is a poet, novelist, and translator. He left Iraq in 1991 after the Gulf War. He got his PhD from Harvard in 2006, and is currently associate professor of Arabic literature at NYU, New York where he now lives. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the e-zine Jadaliyya, which is published in Arabic and English.

The pomegranate alone was awarded “Le prix de la littérature arabe”, for the Best Arabic book translated into French.

In the press

“The pomegranate alone”

“Superb” — (L’Express, 2017)

“One of the most extraordinary novels that I’ve read” — (Alberto Manguel, 2013)

“A compact masterpiece, a taut, powerful and utterly absorbing tale” — (The National, 2013)

“Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer offers a moving literary elegy… It must be read.” — (The Kenyon review, 2013)

“A stark portrait of contemporary Iraq.”– (NPR, 2014)

“Powerful”— (Warscapes, 2013)

“Remarkable novel that in 184 pages captures the experience of an Iraqi everyman” — (Three percent, 2013)

“Ave Maria”

“Visceral yet poetic” — (World literature today, 2016)

“A novel of rare brilliance — (The National, 2017)

“A star of modern Arabic fiction” — (The Christian Century, 2017)

Cessions

• Index (2015)

Yale University Press (2019, USA)
Green books (2019, Malayalam / India)

• Ave Maria (2012)

• The Pomegranate Alone (2010) 

• I’jam: An Iraqi Rhapsody

City lights book (2006, USA)

• The Baghdad blues

Harbor Mountain Press  (USA)

[Updated August 2021]