# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samer-abu-hawwash
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:38:22.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samer-abu-hawwash"
name: "Samer Abu Hawwash"
slug: "samer-abu-hawwash"
description: "Samer Abu Hawwash is a Palestinian writer and translator. He was born in Lebanon to a Palestinian refugee family. He has published around ten volumes of poetry, starting with his debut collection Life is Printed in New York (1997). He is also a prolific translator of English-language fiction and non-fiction. Among his notable translations are works by Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Yann Martel, Hanif Kureishi, Denis Johnson and Marilynne Robinson."
tagline: "Palestinian writer and translator (born 1972)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer_Abu_Hawwash"
    title: "Samer Abu Hawwash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "سامر أبو هواش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer_Abu_Hawwash"
    title: "Samer Abu Hawwash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer_Abou_Hawwash"
    title: "Samer Abou Hawwash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer_Abu_Hawwash"
    title: "Samer Abu Hawwash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5"
    title: "サーメル・アブー・ハウワーシュ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5541420"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump