Noor Kanj (نور كــنــج)
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Poems

غرفة داخل غرفة arabic

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أجانب arabic

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كأي شيء سهل arabic

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من يعيد لي بيتي arabic

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أنجو لأتذكر حياتي arabic

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لكنك دوما" تخذلنا arabic

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الذكريات السيئة arabic

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ذلك الحجر الصعب arabic

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إذا كان لابد...! arabic

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الرّدب arabic

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Noor Kanj نور كــنــج
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About

* 01.07.1990, Suweida, Syria
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Noor Kanj (b. 1990 in Suweida, Syria) studied IT and Economics. In 2014 she fled from Syria to Lebanon and from there to Germany with a fellowship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. She publishes poetry in Arabic.

She has taken part in the VERSschmuggel / reVERSible translation workshop organised by the Haus für Poesie and has guested at the international literature festival berlin (ilb), the Literaturfest München and the “globale° – festival for transnational literature” in Bremen. Kanj published her first texts in the anthologies Hier sein – weg sein (Secession Verlag) and Das Herz verlässt keinen Ort, an dem es hängt (Ullstein 2018).

Noor Kanj subsequently received many invitations to give readings and talks. In 2018 she was invited by the Goethe Institute of Canada to do a reading in Toronto. She lives in Berlin.