Khalil Hawi

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.

List of Works

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)