caption death_date death_place influenced birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date period genre image article_title name occupation
mahmoud . darwish at bethlehem university , -lrb- 2006 -rrb- 09 august 2008 houston , texas , united states abd al-wahhab al-bayati badr shakir al-sayyab al-birwa , british mandate of palestine 220px palestinian 13 march 1942 1964 -- 2008 poetry mahmouddarwish.jpg mahmoud darwish
 mahmoud darwish ar محمود درويش poet and writer
mahmoud darwish

mahmoud darwish -lrb- , 13 march 1942 -- 9 august 2008 -rrb- was a palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the palestinian national poet .
in his work , palestine became a metaphor for the loss of eden , birth and resurrection , and the anguish of dispossession and exile .
he has been described as incarnating and reflecting `` the tradition of the political poet in islam , the man of action whose action is poetry '' .
