Nato Ingorokva has published three collections of poems, The Poet Eve Lives within Me (2003), The Dry and the Damp (2011) and Equilibrium (2013). Nato is also a translator; in 2005 her translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Selected Poems was published to great acclaim. She is editor in chief of the prestigious literary journal, Mastsavlebeli […]
Toeti Heraty was born in 1933. An outstanding Indonesian poet with a powerful vision, she is also a philosopher, an art historian and a human rights activist who is well known for her opposition to the Suharto regime and for her feminism. She writes subtle poems, both intimate and personal, that also highlight repressive social […]
Ulrich Kratz has spent many decades exploring the literatures of the Malay-speaking world. He has initiated Malaysian and Indonesian poetry readings in London and is the joint editor and translator of an anthology of Indonesian poetry. He is a SOAS Emeritus Professor in Indonesian and Malay.
Nariman Youssef is a Cairo-born, London-based semi-freelance translator with an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Edinburgh. She works between Arabic and English and part-time manages a translation team at the British Library. Literary translations include Inaam Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter, Donia Kamal’s Cigarette No. 7, contributions in Words Without Borders, The Common, […]
Born in Kurdistan in 1963, Dilawar Karadaghi studied drama at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He has published nine collections of poetry and a book-length poem, Colour of Dust, in collaboration with Kurdish poet, Nazand Begokhani. His collected poems were published in two volumes entitled Jaddey Mekhek (Clove Road). He has translated various […]
Born in Kurdistan-Iraq, Choman Hardi is is a poet, translator and academic. She sought refuge in United Kingdom in 1993 and was educated at Oxford, London, and Kent Universities. Choman’s post-doctoral research focused on the impact of genocide on Kurdish women in Iraq, Gendered Experiences of Genocide (Routledge, 2011). She has published collections of poetry […]
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Víctor de la Cruz (1948-2015) was an Oaxacan poet from Juchitán, a hub of Isthmus Zapotec art and culture on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. He compiled what is perhaps the most important anthology of Zapotec literature, The Flower of the Word. He earned a doctorate in Mesoamerican Studies, and his books of poetry include First […]
Professor Obaidullah Darwesh Durrani, commonly knows as Darwesh Durrani in the literary world, is one of the most famous contemporary Pashto poets. His family is originally from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan; they later settled in Quetta, Pakistan. He has a Masters degree in English literature, a subject he teaches to college students in Quetta. He […]
Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil ‘Weedhsame’ is widely regarded as one of the most promising young Somali poets of his generation. Thanks to his close relationship with leading poet Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’, Weedhsame is steeped in the long and complex history of Somali poetry and, as a notably gifted practitioner, is committed to continuing its traditions. […]