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Ibtisam Barakat is a bilingual Palestinian-American poet, artist, translator, educator and the author of the critically acclaimed memoirs, Tasting the Sky, a Palestinian Childhood (FSG/2007) and Balcony on the Moon, Coming of Age in Palestine (FSG/Macmillan 2016). The two memoirs combined won more than thirty awards and honors, including the International Reading Association's best book award, the Middle East Council's best book award, and the Arab-American Museum's best book award. Her Arabic language books include The Letter Ta' Escapes, which won the Euro-Mediterranean Anna Lindh Foundation's best book award for children's books in Arabic. Her most recent books include The Jar that became a Galaxy, which was the title for Palestine's national reading campaign in 2019 and The Lilac Girl, which won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Children's Literature. Leïla Tahir, diplômée en langue et littérature arabes et en traduction, a traduit de l'arabe Ramallah, mon amour de Mahmoud Abou Hashhash (avec Emma Aubin, éd. Galaade), Presqu'île arabe de Salwa Al-Neimi (éd. Robert Laffont) et L'affaissement du temps et la mort du sens d'Ala Hlehel in Un royaume d'olives et de cendres (éd. Robert Laffont). Elle pense depuis longtemps qu'il n'y a pas d'âge pour lire des contes et des livres pour enfants.

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