Senior Fellow in Persian at SOAS, Narguess is an expert on classical and contemporary Persian poetry who specialises in translation.

Daniel Hahn is a freelance writer, editor, researcher and translator. His translations include Creole (2002), TheBook of Chameleons (2006), My Father’s Wives (2008) and Rainy Season (2009), all by Angolan novelist José Eduardo Agualusa. The Book of Chameleons won him the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; the process of translating Rainy Season was recorded in […]

Yama Yari was born in Herat in 1982 and came to the United Kingdom in 1999. He is the co-translator, with Sarah Maguire, of A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, the second novel by Atiq Rahimi, Afghanistan’s most important living novelist (Chatto & Windus, 2006). A Thousand Rooms was long-listed for the Independent Foreign […]

Poet, translator, and filmmaker Shook was raised in Mexico City. They earned a BA at the University of Oklahoma and an MSt at Oxford University. In their debut collection, Our Obsidian Tongues (2013), Shook explores the violence and hunger of everyday life, steeping their poems in lush imagery and sensory detail. In 2013, they founded […]

Tom Boll completed his PhD on Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot in 2005. He has taught in the departments of English and Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College London. His translations have been published by Mango Press and Poetry Review. He was the Assistant Director of the Poetry Translation Centre from 2004 […]

Katherine Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961. Her first collection of poetry Truffle Beds (Faber, 1995) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and in 2006 was poet-in-residence at the King’s School Canterbury. Katherine’s […]

Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He has published five collections of poetry including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for best collection, Ink Stone (2003) and Crocodiles & Obelisks (2007). His selected poems, Sky Nails,was published in 2000. He edited The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004) and […]