Parween Faiz Zadah Malaal is one of the most popular women poets writing in Pashto. Born in 1957, in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, Parween Malaal got an education in her native city of Kandahar before graduating from Kabul University. She began her career as a journalist by writing for a prominent paper, Tolo-e-Afghan, published in […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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Lucy Frankel produced the literal version of the Sarahawi poet Ali Salem Iselmu’s poem, ‘Tiris’.
One of the Arab world’s leading intellectuals, Sabry Hafez is Research Professor of Modern Arabic at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS). He has published numerous books and articles in both Arabic and English. His translations of poetry into Arabic, including T S Eliot, have had a significant effect on the development of […]