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Pierre Jarawan: Lebanon to Germany, Slam Poet to Bestselling Novelist
Of Lebanese and German parentage, poet and author Pierre Jarawan will speak in the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s Guest of Honor Germany program.
Pierre Jarawan. Image: Marvin Ruppert
By Chip Rossetti
Live Poems and Missing Persons
Slam poetry is big business in Germany, according to novelist and veteran slam poet Pierre Jarawan.
“Germany has the biggest and most professional slam scene in the world,” he says. After all, a typical German slam poetry event draws a crowd of 500 people and sometimes fills 1,500-seat theaters, making it, in his words, “a mainstream event.”