انا ايصا اعجبتني القصيدة رغم انني احترت في سبب ربط الشاعر لكل تلك الاحداث مع موضوع حبه لسوزان، وخلصت الى الاعتقاد بأن الشاعر اراد ان يقرن حبه باشياء عظيمة ليجعله عظيم خالد كما هي كل تلك الاشياء.

طبعا الترجمة بتصرف جميلة وحبذا لو ان الاستاذ حجازي يستمر في حضورة لنتعرف على مزيد من الاعمال الابداعية العالمية الرائعة كهذه.

وهذه هي السيرة الذاتية للمؤلف:

Alexander Nderitu

is a Kenyan-born novelist, scriptwriter and Internet guru. He is deeply involved with theatre (stage productions) and has also expressed interest in filmed entertainment. His literature is available in English, Japanese and Arabic. As a writer, he is a signatory to the PEN Charter which calls for balance when writing on international issues.

Nderitu (who now likes to be called Saint Alex, after Mexican Lucha Libre icon 'EL Santo') was born on 23rd April. By what he calls 'a happy coincidence' it was the exact same day as William Shakespeare's birthday (23rd April, 1564). A voracious reader of books from a young age (he claims to have read 'everyone from Shakespeare to Perelman'), Nderitu honed his writing skills early in life. But it wasn't until his high school English teacher told her other students, 'I wish you you could all write the way Alexander does!' that he decided to become a career writer.
He graduated from high school at the top of his class and wrote his first feature-length screenplay at the age of 19. The script, about a near-war between Kenya and the DRC, was later changed into a novel, Climate of Terror. Coming to Nairobi city in 2001, he worked as a movie reviewer and later as a Website Designer. His IT background led him to explore Internet options for literary work. In November 2001, he became Africa's first ‘digital novelist’ with the Internet publication of his signature thriller, When the Whirlwind Passes, which was initially a free download on his website.
In 2004, he was nominated for the Douglas Coupland Short Story Award for his despairing spy story, Life as a Flower. In the Spring of 2007, Life as a Flower was included in the Reading Section of an assessment exam in Pennsylvania, USA.
In late 2007, Nderitu won a Theatre Company prize for his humorous stage play, Hannah and the Angel. The play was performed in 17 different venues, including Phoenix Theatre in Nairobi, by the Fire By Ten acting group. In 2012, Hannah and the Angel was translated to Japanese.
During the 2007 General Elections, he worked as a ghostwriter for a top minister on the campaign trail. (The scandal-ridden politician lost his seat and later quit politics).
In 2008, he released a poetry collection, The Moon is Made of Green Cheese, which is available on the award-winning Print-on-Demand website, www.lulu.com. (Nderitu is actually best known as a pioneer of e-books and On-Demand systems.)
On 19th November 2008, Nderitu’s office-based stage play, The Smartest Guy in the Boardroom, played to a full house at Pumwani Social Hall, Nairobi. The performance was done by Changing Scenes theatre group.
In 2009, two short Nderitu stories, 'Rock and Republic' and 'A Cold Day in December' were both shortlisted in the Kwani?-organised writing competition whose theme was 'The Kenya I Live In.'
In 2011, he co-founded, along with other artistically inclined/talented people, the Artists for Contemporary Theatre (A.C.T.) stage and film production group.
A film based on Nderitu's romantic stage play The Stacy Walker Interview is currently in the works.
The short story Kiss, Commander, Promise is currently being translated into Japanese, along with a few other Alexander Nderitu short stories. Kiss, Commander, Promise is also earmarked for film.
Nderitu used to write a wildly popular humour column for Matatu Today magazine. He has also posted numerous poems on the Internet, some of which have also appeared in local (Kenyan) newspapers and in a VoicesNet poetry anthology.
His other works include include The Patriots Club, a thriller about arms smuggling and What's Wrong With This Picture?, a stage play about the Hollywood film-making industry. An English teacher in a Lavington (Nairobi) school described What's Wrong With This Picture? as 'the best play by a Kenyan' he had ever read. Such praise made Nderitu feel that he was underrated. In 2008, he started writing, producing, recording music. In one of his songs, he confesses that, 'I traded pens for mics because I wanted a bigger bang.' ('Zoom!', The Spoken Word Vol.2) And in the track 'Demons' (The Spoken Word Vol.1), he states: 'I'm a truth seeker like Michael Moore / Been on the grind but I have a Hunger for More.'
In 2012, Nderitu was appointed the Deputy Secretary-General of Kenya PEN, the local chapter of International PEN, the oldest literary movement in the world.