Mohamed Shaltami

Mohamed Farhat al-Shaltami was born in Benghazi into a poor family. His parents separated immediately after his birth and his mother raised him with his elder brother. He worked from childhood, which disrupted his studies, attended secondary school in evening classes, was a schoolteacher from 1963, then an employee of the National Library of his city, where he also presented radio programmes. He published in the country's newspapers and journals, was imprisoned several times, and is considered one of the initiators of Libyan poetic modernity. He died on 24 March 2010 in Benghazi.

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• Poetryتذاكر للجحيمMohamed Shaltami · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature