Palestinian poet Hussein Mahanna, a native of the village of Al-Bqai'a in the Galilee, was born in 1945 and is considered one of the most prominent poets of the second generation of Palestinian resistance poets.
Throughout his long literary career, he published:
-The collection 'Rhymes Took Me'
-'My Homeland Bleeds Love' 1978, Al-Aswar Poetry/Acre
-'My Homeland, Return Me to Your Hills a Martyr' 1981, Al-Aswar Stories/Acre
-'Late Night Murmurs' 1988, Al-Aswar Poetry/Acre
-'Holding Onto Embers' 1991, Poetry, Special Edition
-'Talk of the Senses' 1992, Poetry, Special Edition
-'Awad Reclaims His Youth' 1993, Poetry, Special Edition
-'You Captured Them and My Poetry is the Weeping of the Helpless' 1993, Poetry, Special Edition
-'There Are No Irises for Joy in the Field' 1995.
-'Love First' 1995.
'Dry Joy Under My Tongue' 1996.
'On a White Bed' 1998, Prose, Al-Aswar/Acre.
'I Am the Witness' 2001, Poetry, Al-Aswar/Acre.
-'The Tent Shrinks, The Heart Expands' 2007, Poetry, Al-Aswar/Acre.
-'The Two Books' 2007, Poetry, Al-Aswar/Acre.
-'This World Is Not Innocent' 2014.
-'Postponed Joys' 2017, Poetry, Kul Shi Library Edition-Haifa.
-'The Creeping of an Ant' 2018, Novel, Al-Huda House Edition- Abd Zahalqa.
-'Before the Pen Trembles' 2020, Poetry, Kul Shi Library Edition – Haifa.
-'The Rue Branch' 2021, Short Stories, Kul Shi Library Edition – Haifa.
-'Your Morning Is Sugar' 2022, Insights, Kul Shi Library Edition – Haifa.
-'The Hoopoe's Eye' 2023, Insights, Kul Shi Library Edition – Haifa.
He passed away in October 2023 at the age of 78, following a severe heart attack.
