Best quotes by Myron Uhlberg

Myron Uhlberg

Palestinian–Icelandic writer, translator, journalist and poet

Mazen Marrouf is a Palestinian–Icelandic writer, translator, journalist and poet, born in 1978. He has more than five publications, and translated many novels from Icelandic into Arabic including the novels of several Icelandic writers. In 2019, his short story "Militant Jokes" was long-listed the Man Booker International Prize. Some of his poetry works and novels have been translated into many languages including English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

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Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.