Palestinian poet wins Pulitzer: They separated me from my family, hit me, interrogated me

Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha, who was one of this year’s Pulitzer winners, was the top distinction. Abu Toha was honored for a series of essays published in the New Yorker magazine and recorded the lives and suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza, where he has lived almost all his life. “As soon as I won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary,” he wrote in a post on X. “Let’s hope / let it be a fairy tale,” he added. The Pulitzer Awards Committee, in its official announcement, stressed that its essays were able to capture the “physical and emotional massacre in Gaza, combining deep reference with the personal narrative of the memoirs, thus conveying the Palestinian experience”. In 2023, the poet and writer during his attempt to escape his home in Bayit Lachia in Northern Gaza with his wife […]
Source: News Beast

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