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Anton Shammas was born on 1950, is a Palestinian writer, poet and translator (born 1950). Discover Anton Shammas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Anton Shammas was one of six children born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, who moved to Fassuta in northern Palestine in 1937 to teach at the local girls' school.
Anton Shammas (أنطون شماس, אנטון שמאס; born 1950), is a Palestinian writer, poet and translator of Arabic, Hebrew and English.
In 1962, the family moved to Haifa where Shammas studied in an integrated Jewish-Arab high school.
In 1968, Shammas moved to Jerusalem and studied English and Arabic literature and art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Shammas was one of the founders of the Arabic magazine "The East" (Arabic: الشرق), which he edited from 1971 to 1976.
His first poem was published in the literary supplement of Haaretz newspaper.
In 1974, Shammas published his first collection of poetry in Arabic, "Imprisoned in my Own Awakening and Sleep" (Arabic: اسير يقظتي ونومي ), as well as a collection of Hebrew poems, "Hardcover" (Hebrew: כריכה קשה).
In 1979, he published his book of poems "No Man's Land" (Hebrew: שטח הפקר).
He also wrote for some Hebrew newspapers.
Some of his articles explored the problem of Arab identity in a Jewish state.
Shammas is known mainly for his writing in Hebrew and Hebrew translations of Arabic literature, such as the novels of Emile Habibi.
His acclaimed Hebrew novel Arabesques (1986) was translated into eight languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, although it has never appeared in Arabic.
Shammas left Jerusalem in 1987 and now lives in the United States, where he is a professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.
It was reviewed upon its American publication on the front page of The New York Times Book Review (by William Gass), on April 17, 1988.
It was chosen later by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the best seven fiction works of 1988.
Shammas has also translated Arabic poetry into Hebrew and English.
English into Arabic and Hebrew
