BIO Om Nagar (b.1980) writes in Rajasthani. He was awarded the Youth Prize by the Sahitya Akademi, Bhartiya Gyanpith and Pakhi literary journal and has published 9 books in Hindi- Rajasthani and in translation. BIO Abhay K. is a poet and editor. He has published six collection of poems including The Eight-Eyed Lord of…
BIO Jibanananda Das (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was a prolific Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist. Born in 1899 in a Vaidya-Brahmin family in the small district town of Barisal, located in the south of Bangladesh, Das is acknowledged today as one of the prime literary figures of the post-Tagore era in Bengal. According to…
BIO Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 and died in 1941. He brought fame to Indian English and Bengali literature through his translation of Gitanjali which won the Nobel Prize and had a preface by WB Yeats. He was a great poet, dramatist, lyricist, fiction writer and essayist. He also illumined the history of the…
BIO Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” was one of the most famous Urdu poets in the eighteenth century, and is still regarded today as the khudā-e sukhan (the God of Poetry). As a child, he grew up in Agra, then later migrated to Delhi where he spent most of his life. Mir spent the twilight of his life…
BIO The flourit of the legendary Sanskrit litterateur Kalidasa is approximated to be between 4th and 5th century CE. Kalidasa is considered the greatest poet and playwright in the Sanskrit language. His works are primarily based on Indian myth, into which he weaves magical descriptions of nature. There are many debates surrounding Kalidasa’s life and…
BIO Mohamed Elramady is an Egyptian poet who lives in Alexandria. He has published five collections of poetry: أتَوضأُ بِنُورِ عَينيكِ [I Wash in the Light of Your Eyes], 2011; العشق بعد المداولة [Love after Deliberation], 2010; رَمَادِيَّاتٌ وأَلْوَانٌ أُخْرَىٰ عَام [Ramadyat and Other Colors], 2009;حينَ يَتَكَلَّمُ النَّبْضُ [When the Pulse Speaks], 2009; and أَغَانِي…
Sanaz Davoodzadeh Far is an Iranian poet, writer and theater artist. She is the author of I Walk on a Dead Word. Her work has been widely published and her poetry has been translated into English, German, Arabic, Turkish, Swedish, Kurdish and French. . Fereshteh Vaziri Nasab is an Iranian poet, writer and translator. Born…
Houda Hajji is a Tunisian poet born in 1965. She studied Arabic language and literature in the Higher Teacher Training Institute in Souse, and she currently works as teacher at a secondary school. She has participated in several literary forums in Tunisia, Libya, and Morocco. Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish,…
BIO Abdel-Rahim Jdaih is a Jordanian poet, critic, educator, artist, and journalist. He was born in the city of Irbid in 1964. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, a Master’s degree in Classic Archeology, and a higher diploma in Education. In addition to his position as an educator, he worked with the…
BIO Abdullah Al-Araimi is one the most prominent poets of the Sultanate of Oman. He started writing poetry in the early 1990’s. He has participated in poetry readings and festivals in Arab and European countries, including Dhabi, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya. He has published four poetry collections: The Concerto of Words (2005), Give me…
BIO Afraa Kamir Talibi is an Algerian Poet and journalist. She holds a diploma in journalism and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. She has published a poetry collection titled Who has Wounded the Rose? (2011) and a collection of haiku titled There are No Traces on the Sand for Me to Go Back (2016)….
BIO Ahmed Abu-Saleem is a Palestinian poet and novelist. He was born in Zarka, Jordan in 1965. As a descendant of a Palestinian family that migrated to Jordan in 1948, he attended the UN Relief and Work Agency schools in Zarka Refugee Camp. He started his college Education in Turkey. Later he travelled to…
