of poetry and prose, the last in 2008, "The Impression of Butterflies," which are rooted in his experience of Palestinian exile and the bitter Arab--Israeli conflict, in a career spanning nearly five decades.
His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and won international awards, including the Ibn Sina Prize, the Lenin Peace Prize, the 1969 Lotus prize from the Union of Afro-Asian Writers, France's Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres medal in 1997, the 2001 Prize for Cultural Freedom from the Lannan Foundation, the Moroccan Wissam of intellectual merit handed to him by King Mohammad VI of Morocco, and the Stalin Peace Prize, according to the Academy of American Poets.
from Palestine Media Center: Poet, Writer of Palestinian Declaration of Independence, Darwish 67: President Abbas Declares Three Days of National Mourning
also The National Newspaper: Poet's village lives only in memory
also Monthly Review: Mahmoud Darwish
also The New York Times: Mahmoud Darwish, Leading Palestinian Poet, Is Dead at 67
also Houstonist: Mahmoud Darwish Dies in Houston
also Los Angeles Times: Palestinian poet was a political, cultural icon
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