This workshop on Arabic poet Najwan Darwish 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.

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.

Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan and Poetry Translation Centre has been translating Pashto poetry at its workshops with journalist and translator Dawood Azami since 2014.