was born in 1973. She has studied American Literature in the University of Istanbul. Her poems have been published in various magazines since 1997. Her first book Diary of The Storm was published in 2006. She lives in Istanbul.
was born in 1957 Tekirdag and graduated from İstanbul University Communications Faculty. Has been living in İstanbul since 1976 and has worked as a publishing editor. His first book of poetry Ateşli Kaval was published in 1981. Among his other works are Çıngırağın Ölümü (1983), Rüzgar Durdurma Takvimi (1985) and Zaman Haritası (1991) which was awarded the the 1992 Cemal Süreyya Poetry Award. His selected poems were published in 1994. He is a distinguished translator of Spanish-language literature and has translated the works of Neruda, Lorca and Octavio Paz into Turkish. His poems were translated and published in several languages, including Macedonian, Romanian and Portugese.
’s work is concerned with the way in which information and space is politicised and how this politicisation is communicated, read and interpreted. Social and political events and the frameworks that they are presented in, be they formal or vernacular, urban or virtual, inform this interest. The work attempts to find formats and story telling strategies that will facilitate possible readings of these politicised arenas. These themes are explored through a variety of means, from sculptural works to site-specific installations and urban interventions to web based work. New formats and media continually present themselves, as there are always new contexts to try to read space in a contemporary manner. http://www.aislingobeirn.com/
was born in Leeds, UK. She has a BA Hons in Philosophy and English Literature from Leeds University, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Birkbeck College, London University (1996). She has worked in language teaching in Bradford and inner London boroughs, where she also devised courses for English language school and college students, but has spent most of her working life in the printing and publishing industries, starting with the Africa Publications Trust and the Africa Bureau. In April 1992, one year after the Gulf War of 1991, she organised a three-day festival of Iraqi culture Out of Iraq in London to celebrate the richness of the cradle of civilisation through painting, sculpture & photography exhibitions, film, poetry, music, books, crafts and Iraqi food. In 1998, she co-founded Banipal magazine of modern Arab literature in English translation with Iraqi author Samuel Shimon. In 2000, she co-edited with him A Crack in the Wall (Saqi Books, 2000), poems from the last 20 years of the 20th century by 60 Arab poets. In 2004 she was producer of Banipal Live, the first-ever UK tour of Arab authors, and established The Banipal Trust for Arab Literature to raise funds for translation. She was a judge of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2005, and in the same year founded Banipal Books as a book publishing arm of Banipal magazine and was a key figure in establishing The Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, the first prize for published literary work translated from Arabic to English. In 2006, in partnership with the British Council and The Reading Agency, Banipal put on the second Banipal Live UK tour, together with a reader development project to promote Arab authors in English translation in UK public libraries. In 2007 she became a trustee of the newly-established International Prize for Arabic Fiction and a member of the Outreach Committee of the Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World, a joint project between the universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester.
is the author of two very well-received novels: The Street (2001) and The Sawmill (2003). The latter novel was shortlisted for the Nike Literary Prize. Odija depicts a world deep in the Polish countryside, after liquidation of the state-owned farms struggling to adapt to the changes after the breakdown of communism. Odija depicts the reality of Poland "B" in a naturalistic and linguistically economical way. He uses profound metaphors to consider the nature of the world, death and the nature of human relationships in a new reality of economic transformation.
b. 1956 in Tel Aviv, has published eight volumes of poetry. His poems have been translated into more than 40 languages and published in anthologies, poetry journals and nine books in Europe and the U.S. His latest books in English are "Poem" (Dedalus 2004), "Day" (Dedalus 2006) and the bilingually written "Plates from the Museum of Time" (ArtAark 2009). He has also published a fictional epic in metered prose, "The Song of Tahira" (2001) and five volumes of his own translations into Hebrew. Or is the 2000 recipient of the Pleiades honour for having made "a significant contribution to modern world poetry". He has been awarded the Bernstein Prize, the Fulbright Award for Writers and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Poetry Prize. For his translations from ancient Greek he was awarded the Culture Minister Prize. Among his awards are the fellowships of Iowa University, the Centre of Jewish Studies Oxford, the Literarische Colloquium Berlin, the Heinrich Böll Foundation Ireland, and Hawthornden Castle Scotland. In his youth he lived in Holland and India, worked as a builder and a restauranteer, and founded a meditation centre and commune in Jerusalem. Or has studied Philosophy and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and later on taught there Ancient Greek Religion. He has taught poetry and creative writing at Helicon Poetry School as well as in universities in Israel, Japan and Europe. He has published numerous essays of poetry, classic studies, and comparative religion. Since its foundation in 1990, Or has been chief editor of the Helicon Society for the Advancement of Poetry in Israel. He is Editor of Helicon Journal and its series of poetry books, and international editor of Atlas poetry magazine. Or has founded and developed the Hebrew-Arabic Helicon Poetry School. He is Artistic Director of the “Sha’ar" International Poetry Festival and serves as National Coordinator for “Poets for Peace” (the UN sponsored UPC venture). www.amiror.co.il/
was born in Oñati, the Basque Country, in 1956. His first album “Hautsi da Anphora” was released in 1980 and followed by many more, which established his reputation as an innovative musician and songwriter experimenting with traditional Basque music, for example the narrative song, and styles from folk to rock. He is known for setting to music the poetry of Basque writers such as Bernardo Atxaga, Josemari Iturralde, and Joseba Sarrionandia, and for working with musicians from diverse backgrounds. Several of his albums were recorded in London and New York with musicians such as Martin and Liza Carthy, and Fernando Saunders, Ben Monder and Kenny Wollesen. His latest CD is based on the poems of Joseba Sarrionandia.