Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France, Italy, and the Middle East and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Claire Messud writes, she “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination—a contemporary Orpheus.” She is the author of ten award-winning books, including Life in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award Winner, and the flash collection The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers,” and winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. She is the editor of two international anthologies, has written eight plays, and her creative nonfiction and flash reportage has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, The Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from the PEN Foundation, The Lannan Foundation, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Fondazione di Venezia, The Africa Institute, among others. She writes the literary travel column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.
Nathalie Handal
Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature & Creative Writing
NYU Abu Dhabi
