The Iraqi poet and translator, Abboud al Jabiri, was born in Najaf in 1963. A member of the Iraqi Writers’ Union and the Arab Writers’ Union, he was one of the founders of the Iraqi Youth Literature forum. His five poetry collections are Index of Faults (2007) and Lean on his Blindness (2009), The Museum […]
Euphrase Kezilahabi, Tanzanian poet, novelist, and scholar, is perhaps the most widely known and acknowledged contemporary Swahili author. He was one of the first African writers to publish a collection of free verse poetry in Swahili, and he has had a great impact on the development of the genre of the novel in Swahili. Kezilahabi […]
Born in Kaohsiung, Chen Yuhong graduated from the Department of English at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan. After many years in Vancouver, she now has settled down in Taipei. Her works include poetry collections The Bewitched, Annotations, Rivers Flowing Deep into Your Veins, and About Poetry. She also published a Chinese translation of […]
Joel Mitchell lived in Mauritania for two years, from 2004-2006, while working with an NGO focused on maternal-child health. He studied Arabic first at Harvard University, and published poems in English (mostly) in student publications of Veritas and the Spoken Word Society. While most of Joel’s translation work has been on Medieval authors in Latin, […]
Moheb Mudessir was born in Kabul in 1982. A journalist since 2001, he has been working a Producer and Presenter for the Central Asian Services of BBC World Service. Moheb studied Law and International Relations at London Metropolitan University. He has published many articles about Persian and Uzbek literature and culture in a wide variety […]
Katriina Ranne was born 1981 in Finland. She did her BA and MA in African Studies at the University of Helsinki and her PhD in Swahili literature at SOAS. Her thesis researches the image of water in the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, Tanzanian modernist writer, focusing on the way in which the image of water […]
Partaw Naderi was born in Badakhshan a northern province of Afghanistan in 1331 [1953]. He studied in his birthplace and graduated from the Faculty of Sciences at Kabul University in 1354 [1976]. He was imprisoned in the notorious Pul-e-Charki prison by the Soviet-backed regime for three years in the 1970s shortly after he’d begun to […]
Saado Cabdi Amarre is a poet whose emotional verse laments the senselessness of the successive civil wars that have affected Somaliland in the aftermath of its secession. Her masterpiece ‘Haddaba Deeqaay, dagaalkani muxuu ahaa
W.N. Herbert was born in 1961 in Dundee, and educated there and at Brasenose College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and has published widely with OUP, Arc, and others, including six books of poetry with Bloodaxe, several collaborative volumes with other poets, and five pamphlets. He has edited […]
Chenxin Jiang is a literary translator based in Chicago and Berlin. She translates from the German, Italian, and Chinese; recent and forthcoming translations include The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin for New York Review Books and Volatile Texts: Us Two by Zsuzsanna Gahse for Dalkey Archive Press. Her writing and translations have appeared in the Guardian, […]