Batool Abu Akleen

Batool Abu Akleen is a 20-year-old Palestinian poet and translator, born and raised in Gaza City. She is a co-author of Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide. She is studying English literature and translation at the Islamic University of Gaza. At the age of 15, Abu Akleen won the Parjeel Poetry Prize for her poem ‘I Did Not Steal the Cloud’ which was also translated and published as part of the anthology Di acqua e di tempo. In 2024 She was the Poet in Resistance with Modern Poetry in Translation. Her debut bilingual poetry collection 48Kg was published by Tenement Press in June 2025. She is a winner of the London Magazine Poetry Prize, 2025. Extracts from her diaries were performed at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry by the actress Leila Herandi.