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Lebanon
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6 June 1982 (aged 63 years)
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Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
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63 years
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Biography
Khalil Hawi (Arabic: خليل حاوي; Transliterated Khalīl Ḥāwī) (1919-1982) was a Lebanese poet. In his lifetime he wrote five anthologies of poetry and regularly contributed to literary magazines such as Majallat Shiʿr ("Poetry Magazine"). A selection of his poetry was translated by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard in Naked in Exile: Khalil Hawi's Threshing Floors of Hunger.
In 1982, upon the Israeli invasion of Beirut in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, Hawi committed suicide with a rifle in his apartment near the American University of Beirut.
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Khalil Hawi wrote five anthologies of poetry.
- River of Ash (1957)
- Flute and Wind (1961)
- Threshing Floor's of Hunger (1965)
- Wounded Thunder (1979)
- From Hell's Comedy (1979)
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