This series of works on paper by artist Salma Ahmad Caller, explores the notion of the female body as an idea that is constructed, made like a folk doll’s body, from materials both real and imagined. The folk doll or fashion model is patterned and…
Antonella Zagaroli is a Roman poet living in San Quirico d'Orcia and a graduate of Modern Languages and Literature from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the Sapienza University in Rome. Her professional career has followed two distinct paths…
Shakila Azizzada is a poet from Afghanistan who writes in Dari. Shakila Azizzada was born in Kabul in Afghanistan in 1964. During her middle school and university years in Kabul, she started writing stories and poems, many of which were published in…
Gülten Akın (1933 – 2015)
Gülten Akın was born in Yozgat in 1933. She studied law at Ankara University and worked as a lawyer and teacher for many years in various parts of Anatolia where she traveled with her husband and children. One of the…
Kim Myeong-sun was born in 1896 in Pyongyang, Korea. She debuted in 1917 when her short story A Girl in Doubt appeared in Youth [Chungchun]. In 1919, while she was studying abroad in Tokyo, she joined Korea’s first literary circle Creation [Changjo],…
Müesser Yeniay was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1984. She graduated from Ege University, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She has won several prizes in Turkey including Yunus Emre (2006), Homeros Attila İlhan (2007), Ali Riza…
MÜESSER YENİAY was born in İzmir, 1984; she graduated from Ege University, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She took her M.A on Turkish Literature at Bilkent University. She has won several prizes in Turkey including Yunus…
MÜESSER YENİAY was born in İzmir, 1984; she graduated from Ege University, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She took her M.A on Turkish Literature at Bilkent University. She has won several prizes in Turkey including Yunus Emre…
MÜESSER YENİAY was born in İzmir, 1984; she graduated from Ege University, with a degree in English Language and Literature. She took her M.A on Turkish Literature at Bilkent University. She has won several prizes in Turkey including Yunus…
“The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the five-year sentence handed down on 14 February 2011 to blogger, poet and high school student Tal Al-Mallouhi on the charge of “divulging information to a foreign state”. No evidence…
The Eye Itself is a Lily - by Ileana Mãlãncioiu from "After the Raising of Lazarus", translated by Dr. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. (Southword Editions, 2005)Single poem translation of The Eye Itself is a Lily - by Ileana Mãlãncioiu, published Poethead…
Antigone - by Ileana Mãlãncioiu from After the Raising of Lazarus, translated by Dr. Eileen Ní Chuilleánain.Antigone - by Ileana Mãlãncioiu from "After the Raising of Lazarus", translated by Dr. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. (Southword Editions,…
Maram Al-Masri is from Lattakia in Syria, now settled in Paris. She studied English Literature at Damascus University before starting publishing her poetry in Arab magazines in the 1970s. Today she is considered one of the most renowned and…
Liliana Ursu Born 1949, in Sibiu, Romania.
CAREER: Writer, translator, and educator. Creative-writing professor at University of Louisville, KY, and University of Bucharest, Romania; Pennsylvania State University, former educator. Stadler Center for…
Máire Mhac an tSaoi (born 4 April 1922) is one of the most acclaimed and respected Irish language scholars, poets, writers and academics of modern literature in Irish. Along with Seán Ó Ríordáin and Máirtín Ó Direáin she is, in the words of Louis de…
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual writer working both in Irish and English. Among her awards are the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Michael Hartnett Prize, and the Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary. She frequently participates in…
Born in Dublin in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a full-time fiction writer and poet, living in County Galway. She has published one novel, four collections of short fiction and three poetry collections - one in an anthology. She holds a BA in Irish…
Born in Lancashire, England, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 6, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle, Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of Dingle, was a leading authority on Munster…
Born in Lancashire, England, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 6, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle, Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of Dingle, was a leading authority on…
The writer Máire Dinny Wren is from Gaoth Dobhair in Co. Donegal. She writes poetry and short stories. Coiscéim published her first collection of poetry, Ó Bhile go Bile, in 2011. Éabhlóid published her collection of short stories, Go mbeinnse…