Serafina recently graduated with First Class Honours from King’s College London where she read French and Hispanic Studies. During her degree she specialised in literary translation and wrote her dissertation on translating gender in Latin American Literature. In 2014 she spent 7 months living in Cuba where she began a project working with young Cuban […]
Oscar Cruz was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1979. He studied History before turning to poetry. He has been awarded ten literary prizes in Cuba during the last eleven years and has been invited to present his work in Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, India and Italy. He has had 5 books of poetry published; […]
Amjad Nasser is the pseudonym of Yahya Numeiri al-Naimat, a London-based Jordanian writer, journalist and poet and one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry and Arabic prose poem. In 1987, Nasser co-founded Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper in London, he worked there in the decades that followed. Despite Nasser’s left-wing political and ideological beliefs his […]
Cabdulqaadir Cabdi “Shube” was born a settlement near Eyl District, Nugaal Region, in 1953. He grown up in the countryside and lived a nomadic life until the age of 16. In 1973 he joined the Somali armed forces as a private soldier. He later became a singer, songwriter and a poet of the Horseed Military […]
Maxamuud Maxamed Yaasiin “Dheeg” was born in 1945 in Lebi Sagaal settlement, Hargeysa District, North West Region of Somaliland. At the age of 18 he started reciting songs and poems. In 1967 he came to Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia. In the same year he joined Radio Mogadishu Band of poets, playwrights, song writers […]
Iraj Ziayi was born in 1949 in Rasht, north of Iran. His family moved to Talesh, a small town on the Caspian Sea when he was 4 and Iraj spent his childhood in a beautiful environment surrounded by forest, mountain and sea. His family later moved to Isfahan where Iraj went to high school and […]
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias was born in Camagüey in central Cuba in 1984 and currently lives in Miami, Florida. As well as poetry she has written theatre, short stories, children’s books and a novel. Her poetry has been translated into Portuguese, German, Italian and English. In 2019 the PTC published A Little Body are Many Parts, […]
Born in Hong Kong, Yau Ching received her PhD in Media Arts from Royal Holloway, University of London. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii, and also completed postgraduate studies in Studio Art at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. Yau Ching is a cultural studies […]
Ida Hadjivayanis works at the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa in SOAS. She speaks English French and Swahili and was one of the translators on the ‘Alisi Ndani YA Nchi YA Ajabu: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Swahili’ project.
Abdilatif Abdalla (born 1946 in Mombasa) is a Kenyan writer and political activist. He was imprisoned for his support of the Kenya People’s Union, and wrote the poems collected in Sauti ya Dhiki while in solitary confinement, which were subsequently awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature. After he was awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize […]