Najwan Darwish is a Palestinian poet born in Jerusalem. He published his first book of poetry in 2000 and has been an important literary figure ever since. He has published eight books in Arabic, and his work has been translated into over twenty languages. The New York Review Books, which published the English translation of […]
Mahmoudan Hawad (1950-). Poet born into a family of the Ikazka-zan Tuareg, who are part of the Kel Aïr Tuareg of Niger. Before the Tuareg rebellions of the 1990s and after a spate of unemployment, he relocated to Aix-en-Provence, France, where he lives and publishes his works. He writes in Tamazight but is translated into […]
Latha has published two collections of poetry in Tamil: Theeveli (Firespace, 2003) and Paampuk Kaattil Oru Thaazhai (A Screwpin in Snakeforest, 2004). Her short-story collection Nan kolai Seyium penkkal (Women I Murder, 2007) won the biennial Singapore Literature Prize in 2008. Her poems and short stories have been published in Words, Home and Nation, a […]
Shash Trevett is a Tamil from Sri Lanka who came to the UK to escape from the civil war. She has had poems published in journals and anthologies, most notably Modern Poetry in Translation. She writes by navigating between Tamil and English, creating poems which marry the linguistic traditions of the two languages. She has […]
Mattho Mandersloot is a translator from Amsterdam. He studied Classics at King’s College London and went on to complete the MA Translation at SOAS as a Master’s Scholar, focussing on Korean literature. Currently based in Oxford, he is looking into the poetics of Korean onomatopoeia in translation as part of his MSt Korean Studies. Earlier […]
Choi Jeongrye was born in a city near Seoul. She studied Korean poetry at Korea University and received her PhD from the same school. She participated in the IWP (International Writing Program) as a poet at University of Iowa in 2006 and stayed one year at University of California in Berkeley as a visiting writer […]
Abigail Parry’s first collection, Jinx, is published by Bloodaxe, and deals in trickery, gameplay, masks and costume. The poems have won a number of awards, including the Ballymaloe Prize, the Troubadour Prize and an Eric Gregory Award. A chapbook of her translations of antique Spanish love poems, Death by Hearts and Flowers, is published by […]
Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, professor, painter and photographer who was born in the Wihdat refugee camp at Amman, Jordan. He studied in the UN agency for Palestine Refugees schools and at the UNRWA Teacher Training College in Amman. He is in charge of cultural activities at Darat-al-Funun in Amman. He has published […]
Born in Tehran- Iran, Shooka Hosseini started writing poetry in her teens and her first collection “ The Earth Was a Political Planet” was published in 2015 and won the second prize in Shamlou Poetry Awards in 2016. Shooka is one of the outspoken younger generation of female poets who writes boldly about all matters […]
Rachel Long is a poet & the founder of Octavia – Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour. Octavia was founded in response to the lack of inclusivity and representation in poetry and the academy. Octavia are housed at the Southbank Centre, London. Rachel’s work has featured in Magma, The London Magazine, and Filigree: An Anthology […]