Jad El Hage

Jad el Hage was born in Beirut in 1946. A poet, novelist and playwright, his first works appeared in Beirut newspapers in 1966. He has been a journalist since he was sixteen, and an editor and radio broadcaster in Beirut, Paris, Athens, London and Sydney. His published works in Arabic include one novel, seven collections of poetry and one of short stories, a play for radio and four for theatre. He has three novels in English - The Last Migration (Panache Publications, 2002) and The Myrtle Tree ...See more

Jad el Hage was born in Beirut in 1946. A poet, novelist and playwright, his first works appeared in Beirut newspapers in 1966. He has been a journalist since he was sixteen, and an editor and radio broadcaster in Beirut, Paris, Athens, London and Sydney. His published works in Arabic include one novel, seven collections of poetry and one of short stories, a play for radio and four for theatre. He has three novels in English - The Last Migration (Panache Publications, 2002) and The Myrtle Tree (BanBanipal Books, 2007) and One Day in April (Quartet Books, 2011). See less