The Book of Petitions
Poetry •
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Translated by Marilyn Hacker
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No. 23
Author
Vénus Khoury-Ghata received the Prix Goncourt de poésie in 2011 for the totality of her work. She is the author of twenty novels and eighteen collections of poems, including Le livre des suppliques, published by Mercure de France last year. She lives in France.
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