Azita Ghahreman
Is a poet from Iran who writes in Farsi.
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 four collections of poetry: Eve's Songs (1983), Sculptures of Autumn (1986), Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual (1992) and The Suburb of Crows (2008), a collection reflecting on he exile in Sweden (she lives in an area called Tonganoxie on the outskirts of Malmö) that was published in both Swedish and Farsi.
Her poems directly address questions of female desire and challenge the accepted position of women.
A collection of Azita's work was published in Swedish in 2009 alongside the work of Sohrab Rahimi and Christine Carlson. She has also translated a collection of poems by the American poet and cartoonist, Shel Silverstein, into Farsi, The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends (2000). And she has edited three volumes of poems by poets from Khorasan, the eastern province of Iran that borders Afghanistan and which has a rich and distinctive history.
Azita's poems have been translated into German, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese, Swedish, French and English. A new book of poetry, Under Hypnosis in Dr Caligari's Cabinet was published in Sweden in April 2012.
Azita Ghahreman was one of the poets who took part in the PTC's Persian Poets' Tour. Her poetry is translated by Maura Dooley and Elhum Shakerifar.
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