Bassam Hajjar Biography

Bassam Hajjar was born in Tyr, Lebanon in August 13 of 1955. poet, fiction writer, literary critic, translator, Publisher and journalist. He made studies of philosophy at The University of Lebanon and t The Sorbonne of Paris. Investigations, articles, literary critic and translations of his have been published between 1978 and 2002 in magazines Dutch such as “Al Fikr al Arabi al Muassir” “Nizwa” “Abwab” and in the newspaper “Al Nida” in Beirut. He was cofounder and editor in chief of “Al Mulhak”, weekly literary supplement of the newspaper “Assafir”, Beirut and since 1999 up to now editor of “Nawafiz” , weekly cultural literary supplement of the newspaper “Al Mustakbal”, in the same city. He has participated from several poetry readings and conferences in Asia and Europe. Part of his work has been translated into French, English, Italian and German.