Bhadra Patel-Vadgama was born and educated in East Africa.She got her first arts degree at Makerere University Uganda and a Diploma in Education at Nairobi University Kenya. After working for six years in schools in Kenya as Deputy Head she emigrated to Britain in 1973. In 1975 she got a postgraduate Diploma in Library & […]
Beatriz Bastos produced the literal version of the poem ‘Ten songs to a Friend’ by Brazilian poet, Hilda Hist.
Choi Young-Mi is a poet and novelist from the Republic of Korea, widely known for her poetry collection called At Thirty, the Party was Over (서른, 잔치는 끝났다)” and is one of the defining figures who ignited the #MeToo movement in Korea. Born in Seoul, Korea in 1961. She received her B.A. in Western History […]
Corsino Fortes’s first book Pão & Fonema [Bread & Phoneme] which appeared in 1974 made an immediate impact. 1974 was a momentous year for Portugal and its African colonies as it was the year in which Portugal’s dictator Salazar was overthrown, an act which began the process that led to the decolonisation of the Cape […]
Dilek Ünsal gained an MA in Turkish from the School of Oriental and African Studies having obtained her first degree at the Nottingham Trent University. Her particular area of interest is modern Turkish poetry.
Fatena Al-Gharra was born in and educated in Gaza. She has worked in women
Born in the remote Khojand province of Tajikistan in 1964, Farzaneh Khojandi is widely regarded as the most exciting woman poet writing in Persian (Farsi, Tajik) today and has a huge following in Iran and Afghanistan as well as in Tajikistan, where she is simply regarded as the country’s foremost living writer. Her frequently playful […]
Hafiz Kheir was born 1968 in Khartoum Sudan and moved to the UK in 1992. He is a writer translator and a filmmaker a graduate of the Film & Television School at The London Institute (June 2000). He studied drama and theatre from 1982 to 1986 at the Youth Palace Omdurman Sudan.
Gonzalo Rojas was born on the 20th of December 1917, in the port of Lebu (VIII Region) in Chile. He studied at the University of Chile. He was the editor of the magazine Antarctica in Santiago and Professor in Valparaiso. Between 1938-1941 he participated in the surrealist group Mandrágora founded by Braulio Sands, Teófilo Cid […]
Gagan Gill was born in 1959 in Delhi. She had an extremely successful career as a journalist but chose to sacrifice the journalist for the poet in her in order to secure the ‘long periods of silence in her everyday life’ which she considered necessary to remain ‘truly connected to words’. Gagan has published four […]