Fadwa Touqan

Fadwa Touqan was born into a wealthy literary family in Nablus in 1917. She transformed a sheltered upbringing into a life of public poetry, becoming one of the first major Palestinian women writers to publish under her own name. Her work moves between romantic lyric and political testimony, and she remained in Nablus through decades of occupation.

Selected works

• A Mountain Road (1952)
• Alone with the Days (1952)
• The Night and the Horsemen (1988)
• The Last Melody (1999)

Sources

• Fadwa Touqan — Poetry International