Iman Mersal

Poet, writer, academic and translator, Iman Mersal was born in 1966 in Egypt and emigrated to Canada in 1999. First published in Arabic in 2019, Traces of Enayat won the prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, making Mersal the first woman to win its Literature category. Her most recent poetry collection is The Threshold (FSG, 2022).

Poet, writer, academic and translator, Iman Mersal was born in 1966 in Egypt and emigrated to Canada in 1999. First published in Arabic in 2019, Traces of Enayat won the prestigious 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, making Mersal the first woman to win its Literature category. Her most recent poetry collection is The Threshold (FSG, 2022). See less