Masoud Ahmadi was born in 1943 in Kerman, a historical city in central Iran. He moved to Tehran when he was young and became a teacher of philosophy and Persian literature in Tehran high schools. A few years after the Revolution of 1979, he was arrested and spent four years in prison. After his release […]
The prize-winning Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laâbi, is widely acknowledged as being one of the most important poets writing today. Laâbi was born in Fez in 1942 into French protectorate, he was 14 when Morooco gained its independence in 1956. He began writing in the mid-1960s, publishing his first novel in 1969. In Rabat he taught […]
Fouad Mohammad Fouad is a Syrian doctor, public health researcher, and poet. He was born in Aleppo in 1961. In 1980, Fouad was one of a group of younger Syrian writers to participate in the formation of the Aleppo University Conference, a group that made a novel contribution to modern poetry in Syria and the […]
Samuel Wilder is a translator of Arabic literature, a writer, and a student of comparative poetics. Since 2006, he has lived and worked as a literary translator in Cairo and Beirut, and pursued academic work in London and Cambridge. While a student at Brown University in 2005, he was awarded the Lucius Lyon Prize for […]
Karin Karakaşlı was born in Istanbul in 1972. She graduated in Translation and Interpreting Studies. From 1996 to 2006 she worked at the Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper Agos as editor, head of the editorial department and columnist on both Turkish and Armenian pages. She has completed an M.A. in Comparative Literature, works as a translation instructor […]
The poet, story writer and artist, Tinatin Mgvdliashvili, was born in 1955. In 1976 she graduated from the Tbilisi College of Modern and Traditional Art and since 1987 her stories and poems have been regularly published in leading Georgian magazines and newspapers. She has published many collections of poems, including Shindisperi vtsere Leksebi (The Poems […]
Sarah Maguire published four highly-acclaimed collections of poetry, Spilt Milk (Secker; 1991; reprinted PBS; 2007), The Invisible Mender (Cape; 1997), The Florist’s at Midnight (Cape; 2001) and The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto; 2007), a Poetry Book Society Choice that was short-listed for the TS Eliot Prize, 2007. Sarah edited the innovative and popular anthology Flora […]
Ateif Khieri is one of the most highly regarded Sudanese poets of his generation. Born in Karima in northern Sudan in 1967, he moved to Khartoum in 1986 to study Drama at Sudan University. He became actively involved in the city’s then thriving theatres, quickly gaining acclaim for his work as an actor and director. […]
Fariba Shadloo was born in 1985 in Mashhad, Khorasan Province in Iran. She studied midwifery and worked as a midwife in Mashhad hospitals for a few years. She also worked for local newspapers and student journals as a literary editor. She then went on to study Persian language and literature. Her poetry has been published […]
Born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1975, Nick Laird was educated at Cookstown High School and Cambridge University. He worked as a lawyer for several years before leaving law to write full-time. The recipient of many prizes for his poetry and fiction, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Ireland Chair of Poetry […]