Zahra el Hasnaui

Zahra el Hasnaui was born in Aaiún, the old capital of Spanish Sahara. She studied languages in Madrid and London and has worked for the Saharawi National Radio. She is a member of the Saharawi Friendship Generation.

Nirmala Putul

Nirmala Putul was born in 1972, in a Santhali Adivasi (tribal) family. She writes in the Indian tribal language, Santali. She has a diploma in nursing. A collection of her poems Nagare Ki Tarah Bajte Hain Shabad (Words resound like drums) was published in 2004. Nirmala Putul counterpoises her tribal world with the ‘developed’ modern […]

Martin Orwin

Martin Orwin was born in 1963. He studied Arabic and Amharic as an undergraduate at SOAS and he then went on to obtain a PhD in the phonology of Somali. Currently Senior Lecturer in Somali and Amharic at SOAS, he has taught there since 1992. He

Tamara Kamenszain

Tamara Kamenszain was born in Buenos Aires in 1947. Having abandoned her degree in philosophy, she began work as a journalist. She edited the independent magazine, 2001 before becoming editor of the cultural pages of the newspapers La Opinionand Clarin. In 1972 Kamenszain received the poetry prize of the National Arts Fund of Argentina for […]

Suresh Dalal

If one were to search for a name which is at once respected and popular in the entire Gujarati literature especially in the field of poetry and criticism the name of Dr. Suresh Dalal will automatically find its place amongst the most coveted ones. One would hardly come across an author of repute in any […]

Sitor Situmorang

Sitor Situmorang was born in North Sumatra in 1924. He was educated at Dutch schools in Sibolga Balige and Tarutung urban centers on the outskirts of the land of the Bataks. He was influenced by oral traditions; Christian hymns and sermons (part of the teachings of the Dutch colonists) and the sound of Malay the […]

Lucy Frankel

Lucy Frankel produced the literal version of the Sarahawi poet Ali Salem Iselmu’s poem, ‘Tiris’.

Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and actual human translator with about a hundred books to his name. He is currently co-editing a collection of Brazilian short stories, translating a Peruvian novel and writing a book about Shakespeare.

Yama Yari

Yama Yari was born in Herat in 1982 and came to the United Kingdom in 1999. He is the co-translator, with Sarah Maguire, of A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, the second novel by Atiq Rahimi, Afghanistan’s most important living novelist (Chatto & Windus, 2006). A Thousand Rooms was long-listed for the Independent Foreign […]