Sinan Antoon (Arabic: سنان أنطون), is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator. He has been described as "one of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world." Alberto Manguel described him as "one of the great fiction writers of our time.” He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
Life and career
Antoon was born in 1967 in Baghdad. He received his B.A. in English with distinction from the University of Baghdad in 1990...