Born in 1970 in Beirut, Joumana Haddad is a poet, literary translator, magazine publisher and journalist. She has published several widely acclaimed poetry collections, four of which have been translated into French, German, Spanish and Italian. Joumana is the cultural editor for the prestigious an-Nahar newspaper, as well as the administrator of the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (the 'Arab Booker'). Author location: Beirut, Lebanon