Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. He left Iraq after the 199i Gulf War. He has published two collections of poetry and five novels. His works, translated to seventeen languages, include I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, The Book of Collateral Damage, which was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and The Corpse Washer, which won the 2014 Arab American Book Award and the 2017 Arabic Literature Prize from Lagardère and the Arab World Institute in France. His translation of Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance was longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize. He is an associate professor at New York University.