Who wrote Here There Was Once a Country?

Here There Was Once a Country was written by Vénus Khoury-Ghata.

What genre is Here There Was Once a Country?

Here There Was Once a Country is categorized as Poetry.

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Here There Was Once a Country

"Lebanese writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry's communal narrative mode in three poetic sequences, presented here in translations by Marilyn Hacker."--BOOK JACKET.

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