J Anton Shammas

Anton Shammas (born 1950) is a Palestinian writer, poet, and translator of Arabic, Hebrew, and English, born to a Palestinian father and Lebanese mother in Fassuta. University of Michigan Profile He is best known for his acclaimed Hebrew novel Arabesques (1986), selected by the New York Times as one of the seven best fiction works of 1988, and now teaches comparative literature at the University of Michigan.New York Review Books