Jad El Hage(Is this your profile?)

Jad El Hage is a poet, novelist and playwright, and published his first creative works, poems, in Beirut’s newspapers in 1966. He has worked as a journalist since he was sixteen, and also a book editor and radio/broadcaster in Beirut, Paris (Radio Monte Carlo), Athens (Harlequin Arab World), London (BBC World Service) and Sydney. His published works include in Arabic, one novel, seven collections of poetry and two of short stories, one play for radio and four for theatre. He has three novels in English – The Last Migration (Panache Publications) the Myrtle Tree (Banipal Books) And One Day in April (Quartet Books, London). He also wrote songs (music by Walid Golmieh and Charbel Rouhana) His Arabic work has been translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish and English. He lives between Melbourne, Australia, and Sereel, Lebanon.