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The man known as the Palestinian's national poet Mahmoud Darwish has died in aUS hospital following open heart surgery.
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He was 67.
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His work has been translated intomore than 20 languages and won many international prizes.
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Our Arab affairs analystMagdi Abdelhadi looks back at his legacy.
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Mahmoud Darwish leaves behind more than 30 volumes of poetry and severalprose works.
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Lyrical and epic are some of the most common adjectives used to describehis output.
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For decades, he was the most eloquent poetic voice of Palestinian pain andaspiration for statehood.
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The loss of a homeland, the brutality of the occupation andlife in exile are frequent themes in his early work.
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But in his latter years, he becamemore preoccupied with universal themes.
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The Palestinian diasporas became almost ametaphor for the human condition.
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