Maura Dooley has published several collections of poetry, most recently Five Fifty-Five (Bloodaxe 2023) and edited anthologies of verse and essays, amongst them The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2003) and How Novelists Work (Seren Books 2000). She has worked with new writers all her working life for, amongst others, the Arvon Foundation, Performing […]
Azita Ghahreman, was born in Mashhad in 1962. One of Iran’s leading poets, she has lived in Sweden since 2006. She is a member of the South Sweden Writers’ Union. She has published five collections of poetry: Eve’s Songs (1991), Sculptures of Autumn (1995), Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual (2002), The Suburb of Crows (2008), […]
Is a poet, painter, novelist and playwright from Haiti who writes in French and Haitian Creole. Recently called
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. He has gained a wide audience in his native Sudan for his imaginative approach to poetry and for the delicacy and emotional frankness of his lyrics. His poetry has always been concerned with the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of Sudan and […]
Nataly Kelly was born in Illinois, USA, in 1975. She obtained her B.A. in Spanish and studied foreign languages and literature in Ecuador, at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. As a Fulbright scholar in Spanish sociolinguistics, she participated in the M.A. program in Latin American Studies with […]
Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame ‘Hadraawi’ was widely regarded as the greatest living Somali poet. Born in 1943 in Togdheer, he is known to Somalis as ‘Hadraawi’, a name meaning ‘the master or father of speech’. Interweaving striking imagery and metaphor with philosophy and social commentary, Hadraawi’s poems explore universal subjects and specificities of Somali culture and […]
Angkarn Chanthathip was born in Khon Kaen province, in the north-east of Thailand. He has published five books of poetry: The Lover of Sadness,Paradise Descending to Red, Where We Stand,The Road and the Resting Place and The Heart’s Fifth Chamber, which won the prestigious South East Asian Writers’ Prize 2013. He is a member of […]
The prolific poet and translator, Ali Abdollahi was born in Birjand, South Khorasan Province in Iran in 1968. He has published four collections of poetry and written biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke and Gunter Grass, as well as translating more than seventy books on literature and philosophy. A gifted translator from German, Abdollahi has introduced […]
Abdullah al Ryami was born in 1965 in Cairo, where his father had taken refuge from the British-backed suppression of the Omani uprising. As a result of this displacement, Al Ryami’s life has been that of an outsider. His first collection of poems was published in 1992. He helped to found the avant-garde theatre group […]
A founding member of Somali P.E.N. Centre (an affiliate member of International P.E.N. World Association of Writers), and its vice-president until 2010, Said Jama Hussein is a well known Somali scholar who is actively engaged in the promotion of the Somali language and its literature. An essayist and short-story writer, his first collection of short […]