Marcelo Ensema Nsang

Marcelo Ensema Nsang was born in 1947 in Equatorial Guinea, the only Spanish-speaking country in Afria. Marcelo left Guinea in 1961 to study at the seminary in Granada (Spain) and was ordained a priest in 1973. During his stay in Granada, Marcelo began writing poetry when he became involved with a literary movement called Redondela. […]

Shakir Shujaabadi

Shakir Shujaabadi comes from the small town of Shajaabad in the Siraiki-speaking region of Pakistan. He is one of the most famous poets writing in Siraiki today. Shakir has overcome the difficulties of his physical disabilities to publish many collections of his passionate poetry. He writes poetry in both Siraiki and Urdu. The poems we […]

Gwen MacKeith

Gwen MacKeith completed her PhD at UCL on the Argentine fiction writer Antonio Dal Masetto. She now teaches a close reading course on the short story in Latin America in the Spanish and Latin American Studies department at UCL. Her special research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century Argentine fiction as well as literary translation, […]

Hilda Hilst

The Brazilian poet, Hilda Hist, was born in Jaú in 1930. She was writing for almost 50 years, during which time she was awarded collected many of the most prestigious Brazilian literary prizes. In 1962 she won the Prêmio PEN Clube of São Paulo, for Sete Cantos do Poeta para o Anjo (Massao Ohno Editor, […]

Sunay Akin

Born in Trabzon in 1962, Sunay Akin is one of the most popular contemporary poets of Turkey. His poems were first published in 1984. After graduating from Istanbul University he published two poetry magazines Yeni Yaprak (New Leaf) in 1984 and Olmaz (Impossible) in 1990. He is a lecturer in Marmara University, Istanbul and a […]

Blanca Varela

Blanca Varela was born in Lima, Peru, in 1926. The Mexican Nobel Laureate, Octavio Paz, praised her poetry and identified one of her gifts as knowing when to be silent if it is time not to write. It’s true that she has not published prolifically, but perhaps this could account for the dense precision of […]

Victor Terán

Víctor Terán is the most personal poet of the Zapotec Isthmus of Oaxaca, México. He was born in Juchitán de Zaragoza in 1958. His work has been published extensively in magazines and anthologies throughout Mexico. Since 2000, he has also appeared in anthologies in Italy and the United States (Reversible Monuments, Copper Canyon: 2002; Words […]

Liu Qiyu

The Taiwanese poet, Liu Qiyu, is from Gaoxiong. He’s currently a postgraduate student of Chinese literature at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

Worod Musawi

The Iraqi poet and critic, Worod Musawi, was born in Babylon, south of Baghdad, in 1981. At the age of ten she began writing poetry. That same year, in 1991, she left Iraq with her family for Iran where she studied at Almustafa University in the School of Arabic and Islamic law until 1997; she […]

Abboud al Jabiri

The Iraqi poet and translator, Abboud al Jabiri, was born in Najaf in 1963. A member of the Iraqi Writers’ Union and the Arab Writers’ Union, he was one of the founders of the Iraqi Youth Literature forum. His five poetry collections are Index of Faults (2007) and Lean on his Blindness (2009), The Museum […]