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Khaled Mattawa is a Libyan poet, translator, writer, and university teacher born in Benghazi in 1964. He speaks and writes in Arabic and English. His professional work focuses on poetry and Arabic literature. He has taught at the University of Michigan and California State University, Northridge. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named a MacArthur Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mattawa was educated at Indiana University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Duke University. His notable works include *Al-Ghurfa 211, Volume B*, *Shepherd of Solitude*, *Beyond Memory*, and *Adonis*. He is also associated with the *Michigan Quarterly Review*. His work is recognized in the Macarthur Fellows collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Vinony catalogs Khaled Mattawa in its MacArthur Fellows collection (1,138 entries).
Within Vinony's link graph, Khaled Mattawa is referenced by 44 other articles, and connects out to Arabic, Louisiana and International Standard Book Number.
Vinony files it under 1964 births, American male poets and American people of Libyan descent.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Al-Ghurfa 211, Volume B
- Shepherd of Solitude
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Beyond Memory
- Adonis
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Khalid
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Libya
- Place of birth
- Benghazi
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- lsa.umich.edu/writers/faculty-staff/faculty/kmattawa.html
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- date of birth
- 1964-09-23
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