Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan | |
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Born | Carbondale, Illinois, U.S. | July 27, 1986
Nationality | Palestinian-American |
Alma mater | Rutgers University |
Occupations | |
Awards | 2013 - Arab American Book Award 2018 - Dayton Literary Peace Prize |
Website | www |
Hala Alyan (born July 27, 1986) is a
Biography
Hala Alyan was born in
She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at Rutgers University and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University.[4] She and her husband live in Brooklyn, New York.[5]
Awards and works
Alyan's poems have been published in various journals and literary magazines including The New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Guernica, Jewish Currents among others.[6][7][non-primary source needed][8][9]
In her first novel, Salt Houses, the Yacoub family is forced to leave their home in
In 2013, Alyan's poetry collection, Atrium, received an award from the Arab American National Museum.[12][13] In 2018, she won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, an award given to writers whose writing is believed to promote peace.[14][15] She was also a visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris in the fall of 2018.
Her second novel, The Arsonists' City, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 9, 2021[16] to critical acclaim.[17][18][19] The novel is about the Nasr family, which reunites in Beirut to discuss the family patriarch's will, revealing family secrets and the impact of war and violence on the family.[20]
Bibliography
Novels
- Salt Houses (2017)
- The Arsonists' City (2021)
Poetry
- Collections
- Atrium (2005)
- Four Cities (2015)
- Hijra (2016)
- The Twenty-Ninth Year (2019)
- The Moon That Turns You Back (forthcoming March 2024)
- Anthologies
- We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage (2023) edited by Hala Alyan & Zeina Hashem Beck
Essays
- "'I am not there and I am not here': a Palestinian American poet on bearing witness to atrocity" in The Guardian (January 28, 2024)[21]
- "The Power of Changing Your Mind" in TIME (January 17, 2024)[22]
- "What a Palestinian-American Wants You To Know about Dehumanization" in Teen Vogue (December 20, 2023)[23]
- If Palestinian Freedom Makes You Uneasy, Ask Yourself Why" in The New York Times (November 1, 2023)[24]
- "The Palestine Double Standard" in The New York Times (October 25, 2023)[25]
- A Letter to My Husband" in Emergency Magazine (January 21, 2019)[26]
- "In Dust," essay appearing in Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora, edited by Yasir Suleiman (2016)[9]
References
- ^ Zaineldine, Amina (October 17, 2021). "'Tallahassee' Tackles Mental Health Stigma in Arab-American Communities". egyptianstreets.com. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- ^ "I Say Dust". newfilmmakersonline.com. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- ^ Keyes, Claire. "'Ink Knows No Borders' tells story of immigrant and refugee experience through poetry". North of Boston.
- ^ "Hala Nafez Alyan | NYU Steinhardt". steinhardt.nyu.edu. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ^ Masad, Ilana (May 3, 2017). "Middle East, Middle Class: Pain and Privilege in Hala Alyan's 'Salt Houses'". Los Angeles. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ Alyan, Hala (December 1, 2014). "Meals". Missouri Review. University of Missouri. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ LaBerge, Peter; Biggs, Garrett (August 2017). "CAN I APOLOGIZE NOW". The Adroit Journal (22). Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ Magazine, Poetry (March 4, 2019). "Honeymoon by Hala Alyan". Poetry Foundation.
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- ^ "Salt Houses". Goodreads. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ^ "Code Switch Book Club, Summer 2019". NPR.org.
- ^ "2013 Arab American Book Award Winners". Arab American National Museum. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (March 3, 2019). "Hala Alyan". Poetry Foundation.
- ^ Hemley, Robin. "2018 Fiction Winner - Salt Houses". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The Ohio Public Library Network. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
- ^ "Hala Alyan, Ta-Nehisi Coates win Dayton Literary Peace Prize". AP NEWS. September 19, 2018.
- ^ "The Arsonists' City". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-358-12655-3". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
- ^ THE ARSONISTS' CITY | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "The Arsonists' City". BookPage | Discover your next great book!. February 6, 2021. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ^ "The Power of Changing Your Mind". TIME. January 17, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ^ "What a Palestinian-American Wants You To Know About Dehumanization". Teen Vogue. December 20, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ^ "A Letter to my Husband – Hala Alyan". Emergence Magazine. January 21, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
Further reading
Wael Salam. (2022) The Burden of the Past: Memories, Resistance and Existence in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin and Hala Alyan's Salt Houses. Interventions 24:1, pages 31–48.
Wael Salam. (2022) The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”. English Studies 103:1, pages 94–112.
Salam, Wael J., and Safi Mahfouz. “Claims of memory: Transgenerational traumas,: fluid identities, and resistance in Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56, no. 3 (2020): 296–309.
External links
- Official website
- Hala Alyan at IMDb