For the first workshop in our new season we are delighted to welcome back poet and translator Alireza Abiz who will be introducing the PTC workshop to the Persian Perian poet Shooka Hosseini.
Translate Tuareg poet and author Hawad with André Naffis-Sahely. He was born in the Aïr region of Niger and currently lives France. His themes include thirst, wandering, anarchy, and Tuareg politics.
Translate Korean poet Choi Jeongrye who writes about time, memory and loneliness. Our guest translator at this workshop will be Mattho Mandersloot is a translator from Amsterdam
This workshop on Arabic poets Najwan Darwish & Ibrahim Nasrallah will be introduced by returning guest translator Atef Alshaer who has led a number of our recent workshops on Arabic poetry.
Guest-translator Annie McDermott returns for a second session to translate more work by Carla Diacov, an exciting young Brazilian poet and artist writing in Portuguese
At the Poetry Translation Centre’s first ever Tamil workshop we will be translating the work of Latha with Shash Trevett, a Tamil from Sri Lanka who came to the UK to escape from the civil war.
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The PTC will be translating from the West African language Yoruba for the first time with Tọ́lá Ọ̀ṣunnúgà and discovering the work of poet, orator and linguist Taiwo Olunlade.
The winter season of PTC workshops is set to start with a bang as we translate Carla Diacov, an exciting young Brazilian poet and artist writing in Portuguese, with guest-translator Annie McDermott.
Debra Yatim was born in Aceh in 1954, and currently lives in Jakarta. She is an activist, journalist, columnist, filmmaker, and founder of more than three NGOs in Indonesia.
Najwan Darwish is a leading voice in contemporary Arabic literature, working as a poet, journalist, editor and critic. The New York Review of Books has described him as “one of the foremost Arabic-language poets of his generation”.
Batsheva Dori-Carlier’s poetry deals with family and relationships. Her debut book, Soul Search details the evolution of a love, from a first meeting to marriage, maturity and even couples therapy.