Nisrine Mbarki

Dec 11, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Dinçer Güçyeter |Nisrine Mbarki |Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki |Igiaba Scego

Dinçer Güçyeter’s autobiographical novel Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Our German Fairy Tale) depicts the experiences of a Turkish guest-worker family near Cologne from the perspective of alternate characters, mostly the young son and his mother. It’s 1984, and my first day at kindergarten. I don’t say a single word to the other children, I just sit in the corner like a sculpture. They speak a different language. Though we live in Germany, I still find it strange that they speak German here.

Dec 23, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Iryna Shuvalova |Nisrine Mbarki |Sinan Antoon |Jean D’Amérique

After our house in Jabalia was destroyed we hid in the UNRWA school. But the bombs followed us there too . . . Translated from Arabic by the author

Jun 5, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Nisrine Mbarki |Alfred Schaffer |Babeth Fonchie Fotchind

Black and White: Three Poems In these three poems, Nisrine Mbarki contemplates her parents’ life as immigrants in the Netherlands and their tumultuous relationship. Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison

Apr 27, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Nisrine Mbarki |Amit Dutta |Isabella Corletto

In these three poems, Nisrine Mbarki contemplates her parents' life as immigrants in the Netherlands and their tumultuous relationship.

Apr 25, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Nisrine Mbarki

Nisrine Mbarki (b. 1977) is a Dutch writer of Moroccan descent, a poet, columnist, and literary translator of Arabic poetry into Dutch. She is also an editor and programmer for the Winternachten Festival. She writes short stories, theater scripts, and poetry. Her poems and columns are regularly published in Dutch literary magazines. In January 2022 she published her debut collection of poetry, Oeverloos (Boundless), for which she was nominated for the C.