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The prize-winning Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laâbi, is widely acknowledged as being one of the most important poets writing today. Laâbi was born in Fez in 1942 into French protectorate, he was 14 when Morooco gained its independence in 1956. He began writing in the mid-1960s, publishing his first novel in 1969. In Rabat he taught […]
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Mamoudou Lamine Kane is a Mauritanian poet, journalist and economist. He writes for Mauritian daily newspapers and his own blog, www.mozaikrim.over-blog.com, and is director of the communication structure NEXUS PROD. His poetry gives a characteristic nod to cyclicality in form, and is political in content – covering themes such as the title of the most […]
After studying English, French, and journalism, Delaina Haslam worked in writing and editing roles in Madrid and then London. Missing languages, she retrained and passed the Diploma in Translation. She specialises in sociology and translates for French academic journals. She took part in the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School in 2016, which led […]
Gabriel Mwènè Okoundji was born in Okondo-Ewo, Republic of Congo, in 1962. He has lived in Bordeaux practising as a clinical psychologist since receiving a Congolese government grant to carry out his higher education there. His mixing with Occitan writers was a determining factor for the development of his poetry, and Occitan was the first […]
Umar Timol is a Mauritian poet and writer. He has three poetry collections to his name and two novels. He has also published a collection of aphorisms, and writes comic book scripts. He has received two Centre National du Livre grants, and taken part in festivals around the world, including the Medellin International Poetry Festival […]
Habib Tengour’s writing focuses on the Algerian cultural identity and memory as they are being constructed and adapted in the modern conceptions of the Orient and Occident. The poems address experiences of exile and migration. He is considered one of the most forceful and poetic voices to emerge from Northwest Africa in the post-colonial era. […]
Marilyn Hacker is the author of fourteen books of poems, including A Stranger’s Mirror (Norton, 2015) and Blazons, (Carcanet, 2019), an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices ( Michigan, 2010), and eighteen collections of translations of French and Francophone poets also including Samira Negrouche, Jean-Paul de Dadelsen and Claire Malroux. A Different Distance, a collaborative sequence written […]
Lebanese poet and novelist, long-time Paris resident Vénus Khoury-Ghata is the author of twenty-three novels, including Une Maison aux bord des larmes (translated by Marilyn Hacker as A House at the Edge of Tears, Graywolf Press, 2005 ) and La Femme qui ne savait pas garder les hommes, Les Derniers Jours de Mandelstam, an imaginative […]