Syed Shah Saud is a talented young Pashto poet, born in Peshawar, the biggest city in the Pashtoon inhabited parts of Pakistan, in 1970. He has done an MA in Philosophy from Peshawar University and teaches literature at Government College Peshawar. Shah Saud is known for his originality of thought and a peculiar style in […]
Mui Poopoksakul is a lawyer-turned-translator with a special interest in contemporary Thai literature. Her first book-length translation, The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon, won a PEN Translates award and will be published by Tilted Axis Press in early 2017. Mui’s work has also appeared in various literary journals, including Words without Borders, Two Lines, […]
Marion Molteno is a prize-winning novelist whose writing draws on the unusual cultural range of her life experience. If you can walk, you can dance won a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for the best book from Africa, and two of her novels feature oral poetry – Urdu and Persian poetry in her latest novel, Uncertain Light, […]
Javed Akhtar is a highly respected Urdu poet who grew up in a family steeped in the traditions of classical poetry. In addition to writing poetry he is an award winning screen-play writer for Bollywood. Like Zehra Nigah, his poems use both classical and new forms.
Zehra Nigah from Pakistan is a highly regarded poet in a culture in which poetry is almost universally popular. In the Urdu tradition she was one of the first women poets to challenge the traditional roles of women. As a child her life was filled with poetry and like Javed Akhtar she uses both traditional […]
Thai poet and artist Uten Mahamid is the author of thirteen collections of free-verse poetry, several of them published as handmade books, including one that was shortlisted for the S.E.A Write Award. He has also penned collections of short stories and a children’s book. One key mode of his poetry is telling stories through single […]
Born in 1990, Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo had already begun to earn critical attention before she turned sixteen, publishing dozens of poems in Poetry, Poetry Monthly and other prestigious publications in China. She studied business management and accounting in university, but never gave up on her long-standing passion for poetry and finally embraced her life’s […]
Dave Haysom is a literary translator and editor who has been living in Beijing since 2007. He first started publishing translations online at spittingdog.net in 2012. From 2014 to 2018 he was joint managing editor of Pathlight, a quarterly journal of Chinese literature in translation, and in 2015 he helped launch “Read Paper Republic”, a […]
Bejan Matur is the most illustrious poet among a bold new women’s poetry emerging from the Middle East. Her poetry engages directly and concretely with the struggles of her people, and yet there is also a mysticism in her writing, a closeness to nature, an embracing of mythology – a dialogue with God. Bejan Matur […]