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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Grace Dbayat was born in Kafr Kana (Qana Galilee) - the district of Nazareth in 1950. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Haifa in 1970 in the subjects of Islam and the Arabic language.
After graduating from university, he taught Arabic in secondary schools until he retired in 2006. After that, he participated in revising articles and books translated from other languages.
He organizes vertical poetry and free poetry since his youth, and he is keen on poetic music in his poems. His first poetic goal is the Palestinian issue, while the axis of his poetry is a triangle: the homeland - the land - the woman. Lamentation occupies a special place in his poetry, and he has many poems in it, such as the poem “Khitah” in the eulogy of his sister, and the poem “As a dice governs him and governs his form,” in which he lamented Mahmoud Darwish.
In his poetry, he combines thought and conscience, appealing to the search for human freedom, dignity, and the right to life, and to achieve his primary goals. These days, he is working on issuing his fourth collection, “For Her Grace” and Rafia, which includes his new poems. He believes that creativity is the root of art in general and poetry in particular, and tries to be creative in all his poetry. His third collection, “The Grays,” included sixty pieces that the poet called: “The Grays,” in which he described ideas and images, and relied on the sea of “sand”; Each stanza consists of three lines with one narration, which he divided in his collection into three, each of them twenty ramadis - in which he tried to be brief, as much as possible, in expressing his vision - and it is a summary of what the poet told about his relationship with people, and he started it with ramadiyya: that Whoever appears in my eyes al-Wafa - the bass of my head, weeps and begs for forgiveness - asked for my sympathy and my money and disappeared... The poet shed some light on this naming, in poetry, at the end of the collection.
He has published three collections of poetry:
With the Rise of Dawn, Kafr Kanna: Kafr Kanna Press, 1994, (in 110 pages).
You remain sweeter, new: a new press, 1996 (in 100 pages).
Ramayat, Nazareth: Al-Nahda Press, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports, Department of Arab Culture, 2001, (in 104 pages).
And he is preparing for his fourth group, as a tribute to her.
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