Ibrahim Nasrallah was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1954 and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp. He worked in journalism from 1978 to 1996. From 1996 to 2002 he was director of cultural affairs at the Darat al-Funoun–Khalid Shoman Foundation in Amman. He is currently vice-president there. His first novel Prairies of Fever (1985) was published in English in 1993 (Interlink, USA). He has pubished nine novels to date and thirteen collections of poetry. He is translated into several languages with one novel in English. He has won prizes for his work, including the Al-Owais award for poetry in 1997 He won the ’Arrar prize (1991 and the Tayseer Sbool Prize for a novel (1994).