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Khaled Mattawa (born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, where he currently lives and writes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = University of Michigan MFA faculty )〕 ==Background== Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya where he spent his childhood and early teens. In 1979 he emigrated to the United States. He lived in the South for many years, finishing high school in Louisiana and completing bachelor's degrees in political science and economics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He went on to earn an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University where he taught creative writing. He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge. He received his PhD from Duke University in 2009. His work has appeared in ''Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Callaloo, Poetry East, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review'' and ''The Pushcart Prize XIX'', ''The Best American Poetry 1997'' anthologies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Web Del Sol Association )〕 Khaled Mattawa began writing poetry in late 1980s. His first collection of poems was published 1995. He then started working on translating Arabic poetry of renowned Arab poets into English, his first translation ''Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems'' of Iraqi poet Hatif Janabi was published in 1996. He contributed and edited two Anthologies on Arab American Literature. Khaled Mattawa is a contributing editor for ''Banipal'' magazine, the leading independent magazine of contemporary Arab literature translated into English.〔 He is president of Radius of Arab American Writers organization RAWI.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = RAWI )〕 In 2014, Mattawa was elected a Chancellor of the (Academy of American Poets ).〔http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/khaled-mattawa〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khaled Mattawa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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