Sinan Antoon author biography, plus links to books by Sinan Antoon.

Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. His essays and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Journal of World Literature, and Jadaliyya. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish's In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators Association Award and that of Ibtisam Azem's The Book of Disappearance was long-listed for the 2025 International Booker Prize. His novels include I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, The Corpse Washer, The Baghdad Eucharist, and The Book of Collateral Damage. He is associate professor at New York University.

This biography was last updated on 03/17/2026.

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