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V. Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist. She currently resides in Paris. Author of a dozen collections of poems and as many novels, she received the Prix Mallarmé in 1987 for Monologue au mort, the Prix Apollinaire in 1980 for Les Ombres et leurs cris, and the Grand Prix de la Société des gens de lettres for Fables pour un people d’argile in 1992. Her Anthologie personnelle, a selection of her previously published and new poems, was published by Actes Sud in 1997. Her work has been translated into Italian, Russian, Dutch, German and Arabic. In English, she has published three collections of poems, Here There Was Once A Country (Oberlin College Press, 2001),Gates of the City (University of Minnesota Press, 1993)and She Says (Graywolf Press, 2003). A new collection, Nettles is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2007. Her novel, A House at the Edge of Tears was published by Graywolf Press in 2005. She was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2000. Many of her poems have appeared in Ambit, Banipal: a journal of Modern Arab Literature, Field, Jacket, The Manhattan Review, Metre, Poetry, Shenandoah and Verse.
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