Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’
Maxamed Xasan 'Alto' was born in 1960. He studied in Somalia and Soviet Union and has an MA in Journalism. Since 2004 he has been a teacher in Somali language at SOAS London. He is a writer and freelance journalist and has published and edited many books in Somali language. He has worked closely with Dr Martin Orwin on a number of Somali poetry translation and is closely involved with the Poetry Translation Centre.
Poems translated by Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’
- Ugh! Television is Disgusting
- Muxubbo
- Sipping a Little Knowledge Could Create Hardship
- Don’t Strike Against the Soil!
- You Understand
- Let our Tale Begin with Beauty
- The Speech of Our Language
- Love That Doesn’t Dissipate
- Never Forget!
- Settling the Somali Language
- Like the Most Cultivated Farm
- The Writer’s Rights
- Eyes Brimming with Beauty
- What Is A Nation?
- Orphan
- Politics
- To the Young
- Death of a Princess
- Beloved
- A to Z
- The Mark
- Mandela
- She
- Passing Cloud
- Our Land
- Disorientation
- Kudu
- The Sea-Migrations
- The Killing of the She-Camel
- Society
- The Scab
- Harmony
- A Shout
- Amazement