Jawdat Haydar

May Maalouf (Lebanese University)

Ed. by Rita Sakr, Maynooth University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.4: Arab Diasporic Literature and Culture (Anglophone/ Francophone/ Other), 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Anna Bernard (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 1905
Died 2006
Activity 1980-2006

Places

Born in Lebanon
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

Arab-Anglophone

Activities

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Writer / Author

Resources

Haydar's Works

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Jawdat R. Haydar (1905-2006) was a Lebanese centenarian poet who started writing poetry in English while pursuing his BS in Education at North Texas University in the 1920s (he also wrote Arabic poetry after the death of his wife in 1984). He published four volumes of poetry,

Voices

(1980),

Echoes

(1989),

Shadows

(1998) and

101 Selected Poems

(2006). Four years before his passing, he published his autobiography

Mishwar al ‘Umr

(“Life’s Journey”) which documents the poet’s several public roles and reveals his poetic and philosophic thoughts. In 1995 he founded a literary society,

Wahat al Adabin the Bekaa’

(“Oasis of Literature in the Bekaa”), which reinvigorated the poetic impulse in the region, and he was instrumental in reinstalling in Baalbek the statue of another…

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Citation: Maalouf, May. "Jawdat Haydar". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 January 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13965, accessed 23 November 2024.]