Juana Adcock
Juana Adcock (1982) is a Mexican-born Scotland-based poet and translator who works in both English and Spanish. In her first book Manca, named by the... more
Juana Adcock (1982) is a Mexican-born Scotland-based poet and translator who works in both English and Spanish. In her first book Manca, named by the... more
Eduards Aivars (real name Aivars Eipurs) is a poet, short prose writer, essayist and a long-time literary mentor and consultant of young and aspiring... more
Rati Amaghlobeli was born in 1977 in Tbilisi. He graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University from the faculty of philosophy. Since... more
Bruno Vieira Amaral (1978) is a writer, translator, literary critic and Assistant Editor at LER magazine. His debut novel As Primeiras Coisas (The... more
Marija Andrijašević (1984, Split) is a poet and writer. In 2015 she received an MA in Comparative Literature and in Ethnology and Cultural... more
Born in Malta in 1977, Clare Azzopardi is an award-winning writer who writes for both children and adults. Her body of work includes poems, plays,... more
Most recently, Krystelle Bamford’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, with work forthcoming in The Kenyon Review. In 2010, she was... more
Subhro Bandopadhyay (1978, Calcutta, West Bengal, India) started publishing early. His first chap book dahankhata theke appeared in the 2000. Since... more
Binayak Bandyopadhyay (1976) is a Bengali poet. His collections of poetry include Nehat Gorib Nehat Chhoto, Daracchi Dorjar Baire, Jototuku Mene Nite... more
Nilanjan Banerjee (b.1974) was educated at Visva-Bharati of India and Reitaku University of Japan. He is a poet, painter, curator and exhibition... more
Zofia Bałdyga (1987, Warsaw) is a Prague based poet and translator. She has published four collections of poetry, Passe-partout (2006),... more
Maaz Bin Bilal (b. 1986) is a writer, translator, and academic, based in the national capital region of Delhi, India. A commitment to... more
Hassan Blasim is a poet, filmmaker and short story writer. Born in Baghdad in 1973, he studied at the city’s Academy of Cinematic Arts, where... more
Andrej Blatnik (b. 1963) holds a PhD in communication studies. After working as a fiction editor for the Cankarjeva publishing house, he now teaches... more
Roman Simić Bodrožić was born in 1972 in Zadar, Croatia. He holds a degree in Spanish Language and Literature and Comparative Literature from the... more
Petr Borkovec published a new collection of poems in 2013 entitled Milostné básně [Love Poems] in Czech. He has translated the work of Joseph... more
Tsead Bruinja (b. 1974) is a poet living in Amsterdam. He made his debut in 2000 with the Frisian language collection entitled De wizers yn it read... more
Rumena Bužarovska is the author of three short story collections – Čkrtki (Scribbles, Ili-ili, 2007), Osmica (Wisdom Tooth, Blesok, 2010) and... more
Hilari de Cara is one of the foremost writers in Catalan. He is not only a multi-award winning poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, editor and a... more
Yolanda Castaño (Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1977) has been publishing poetry for over twenty years. Her six collections have been awarded a... more
Tatev Chakhian (1992, Yerevan) is a Poland-based Armenian poet, translator and visual artist. She graduated from the Faculty of Cultural... more
Nguyen Bao Chan trained as a cinema scenarist at the Hanoi Cinema and Theatre University. She currently works for Vietnam Television as an Arts and... more
Irakli Charkviani (1961 – 2006), sometimes known under his pseudonym Mefe (‘The King’), was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and musician.... more
Tiziana Colusso is both a writer and a literary activist. For the past six years, she has served on the board of the European Writers Council. She is... more
Fflur Dafydd is a bilingual (Welsh/English) screenwriter, singer and novelist. To date (2016), she is the author of five novels and one collection of... more
Siân Melangell Dafydd is an author, poet and translator. Her first published novel, Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing; Gomer, 2009) won her the coveted... more
Ming Di is a poet, translator and editor, born in China, currently living in USA. She is author of six collections of poetry in Chinese. Some of her... more
Poet and architect Efe Duyan studied architecture and philosophy and currently teaches architecture in İstanbul at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts... more
Gareth Evans-Jones is from the island of Anglesey in north Wales and is a lecturer in Philosophy and Religion at Bangor University, as well as a... more
Born in Norway in 1983, Erika Fatland is a social anthropologist who made her debut as an author in 2009 with the children’s book Foreldrekrigen... more
Heike Fiedler (1963) is a Swiss author, multilingual poet, and sound and visual artist living in Geneva. She performs her poetry with laptop, paper... more
Born in Granollers in 1982, Albert Forns is a journalist and award-winning Catalan writer. He regularly writes on theatre, literature and visual arts... more
Maureen Freely is a writer, translator, senior lecturer at Warwick University and a member of English PEN. Her latest novel, Enlightenment, is an... more
Ilke Froyen is general director of Passa Porta, the international house of literature in Brussels, and festival director of the Passa Porta Festival... more
Maria Grech Ganado, (b. 1943), poet, translator, critic, studied English at the Universities of Malta, Cambridge and Heidelberg. She was the first... more
Patrizia Gattaceca (1957, Corsica) is a versatile artist: a poet, musician, singer and songwriter and an actor from the Riacquistu cultural revival.... more
John Glenday’s first collection, The Apple Ghost won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society... more
Ifor Ap Glyn was born and bred in London to Welsh parents. He works as a TV producer, after a period as a scriptwriter for theatre and TV, and has... more
Anja Golob (1976) has so far published four books of poetry, three in Slovene, one in German translation: V roki (Litera, Maribor, 2010), Vesa... more
Dan Gorman is the Executive Director of Shubbak Festival, London’s only citywide festival of contemporary Arab culture. He is also the co-founder... more
Eluned Gramich (1989) is a German-Welsh writer and translator. She lived in Japan and Germany for several years before returning to Wales to pursue... more
Kathryn Gray was born in Wales in 1973. Her first collection, The Never-Never, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the... more
Michelle Green has taken her award winning spoken word work all over the UK, performing solo as well as in collaboration with musicians and visual... more
David Greenslade teaches at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. A prize winning essayist he writes in Welsh and English and has many books... more
Kate Griffin is Associate Programme Director at Writers’ Centre Norwich, contributing to the development of WCN’s international activities.... more
A member of Transcript editorial team since late 2012, Emmanuel Gros studied French and foreign literature in Lyons before moving to England, where he... more
Anna Gulczynska was born in Poland in 1977. She studied German and has spent a lot of time in Germany. She now lives in Frankfurt and writes poetry in... more
Richard Gwyn is a poet, novelist and translator. He grew up in Breconshire, Wales, and studied at the LSE and in countless bars, roadhouse cafés,... more
Jen Hadfield lives in Shetland, an island community a couple hundred miles off the coast of Scotland and has published two collections of poetry with... more
Based at the British Council in London, Katie Haines is Marketing and Communications Lead of Creative Europe Desk UK. She promotes awareness and... more
Golan Hajiis a Syrian-Kurdish poet and translator with a postgraduate degree in pathology. He was born in 1977 in Amouda, a Kurdish town in the... more
Susan Harris is the editorial director of Words without Borders (www.wordswithoutborders.org) and the coeditor, with Ilya Kaminsky, of The Ecco... more
Anahit Hayrapetyan is a writer and photographer. She has been taking photos since 2005. After participating in World Press Photo Seminars in 2006,... more
Jim Hinks is an editor at Comma Press, a Manchester-based publisher specialising in short fiction.
Ted Hodgkinson is Senior Programmer for Literature and Spoken Word at Southbank Centre. Former online editor of Granta, he has written for a variety... more
James Hopkin has lived in Krakow, Berlin, Manchester and several other cities and countrysides in Europe. He gained a First Class honours degree in... more
Kristina Hočevar (1977) studied Slovenian Language and Literature and General Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and currently works as... more
Peggy Hughes is the director of Literary Dundee, a University of Dundee-led initiative which connects books, readers, writers and the brightest ideas... more
Shota Iatashvili is a poet, fiction writer, translator and art critic. From 1993-97 he worked as an editor at the Republic Centre of Literary Critics... more
Ghareeb Iskander (born in Baghdad 1966) is an Iraqi poet currently living in Baghdad and teaching Arabic Language at Imam Musa al Kadhim College. He... more
Ruqaya Izzidien is an Iraqi-Welsh writer, editor, and sensitivity reader currently focusing on the representation of Arab and Muslim communities. She... more
Erica Jarnes runs the Writers in Translation programme at English PEN. She previously worked as an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, a literary events... more
Margrét Lóa Jónsdóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1967. She studied Icelandic and philosophy at the University of Iceland, and philosophy at the... more
Doris Kareva (1958) graduated from Tartu University in 1983 in Roman-Germanic philology before going on to work in the cultural weekly Sirp from... more
Sabreen Khadhim (Born in Baghdad, 1989) works as a Television reporter at Al-Hurra TV and has published poems widely in Iraqi magazines and newspapers... more
Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964, in a village close to Aleppo, Syria. He is the fifth child of a family of thirteen siblings. He studied law at... more
Vishnu Khare is a poet, translator, literary and film critic, journalist and scriptwriter. Each of these he has pursued at the highest level. His work... more
Anna Kim was born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea, moving to Germany in 1979, when her father took up an academic post in fine arts. Since then, she... more
Aurélia Lassaque (b. 1983) is an Occitan and French poet. She is keenly interested in the relationship between poetry and music and has collaborated... more
William Letford has received a New Writer’s Award from the Scottish Book Trust, An Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary, and has an MLitt in Creative... more
Caryl Lewis is an award-winning writer who has published ten Welsh-language novels for adults, three novels for young adults and thirteen... more
Dyfan was raised in Craic-cefn-parc, a village to the north of Swansea. He writes in a variety of mediums. Having won the essay prize at the National... more
Esyllt Angharad Lewis is a freelance artist, translator and editor. She has a passion for writing, speech and drawing and for bringing them into... more
Eva Luka is one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary Slovak poetry. She has published three books of poetry so far and has won a... more
Martín López-Vega (Poo de Llanes, Asturias, 1975) writes both in Spanish and Asturian. In Asturian, he has published four books of poems, gathered... more
Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic writer, translator and journalist. Born in 1978 to a Palestinian refugee family he lived, studied and worked... more
Nikola Madzirov is one of the most powerful voices of the new European poetry. He was born into a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica,... more
Franca Mancinelli has published two books of poetry, Mala kruna (Manni, 2007) and Pasta madre (Nino Aragno, 2013). A preview of her second book of... more
Miguel Manso was born in Santarém in 1979 and lives in Lisbon. He has published eight books of poetry since his debut Contra a manha burra ... more
Canan Marasligil is a freelance writer, literary translator, editor and curator based in Amsterdam. She works internationally in English, French,... more
Lloyd Markham (1998) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and spent his childhood in Zimbabwe, moving to and settling in Bridgend, South Wales,... more
Robyn Marsack has been Director of the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh since 2000, and has facilitated many poetry translation workshops in... more
Txema Martínez was born in Lleida, in western Catalonia, in 1972. He holds a Masters in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of... more
Narlan Matos (Brazil/USA) was born in Itaquara, Bahia in 1975. At the age of 21, he published his first poetry book Ladies and Gentleman: the Dawn!,... more
Maurizio Mattiuzza was born near Zurich and returned to his father’s homeland, Friuli (a region in the Northeast of Italy next to the Slovenian... more
Anna Mattsson (born in 1966) is a Swedish poet, novelist and translator. Since her debut in 1988, she has published 10 books of her own and several... more
Bejan Matur was born in eastern Turkey in 1968 and raised in Kurdish and Turkish. She published her first volume of poems, Mansions full of breezes in... more
Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967. He started writing poetry and prose when he was 16, and also began working with experimental theatre... more
Dylan is a prolific commentator on the culture of Wales, leading policy work on media and democracy for the Institute of Welsh Affairs, for whom he... more
Zahir Mousa is an Iraqi poet living in Baghdad, where he works as an Arabic Language teacher. His work has appeared in several newspapers and... more
Brane Mozetič is a poet, writer, translator, editor, publisher, activist, promoter of Slovenian literature abroad and many other things. Up to date,... more
Grug Muse (1993) is a Welsh-language poet, editor, performer and researcher from the Nantlle Valley in North Wales who lives in Machynlleth. She... more
Gaga Nakhutsvrishvili was born in 1971. He is a poet, fiction writer and translator. In 1993 he graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State... more
Samira Negrouche (1980) is a Francophone Algerian-Amazigh poet and translator living in Algiers. She trained as medical doctor but has dedicated... more
MacGillivray is the Highland name of poet and musician Kirsten Norrie. Recently nominated for the New Scottish Performer of the Year Award, and... more
Awezan Nouri (born in Sulaimanyah in 1981) is a Kurdish Iraqi Poet, writer and activist. She has worked as an editor and journalist for many Kurdish... more
Alicia García Núñez is a journalist and poet. As a poet, she has performed in Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Alicante, Murcia,... more
Artis Ostups (1988) is a Latvian poet, translator and essayist. He is currently editor-in-chief of the online magazine Punctum, as well as an author... more
Morgan Owen (born 1994), is a poet and writer born and raised in Merthyr Tydfil and now lives in Cardiff. In 2019, he published a pamphlet of poems,... more
Tibor Hrs Pandur, was born in 1985 in Maribor, Slovenia, and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts in... more
Kallia Papadaki was born in Didymoteicho in 1978 and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied Economics at Bard College and Brandeis University in the... more
Marilena Papaioannou was born in 1982 in Athens, where she grew up. She studied Molecular Biology and Genetics in Alexandroupolis and wrote her... more
Avner Pariat, born 1986, is a Khasi-Jaintia writer from Shillong. He has contributed articles to a number of publications including Economic and... more
Koen Peeters (b. 1959) is the author of an increasingly impressive oeuvre, to which he has added seven novels since his debut in 1988 with... more
Ana Pepelnik is a poet and translator. Her first poetry collection, Ena od varijant kako ravnati s skrivnostjo (One Way to Treat a Secret; Prišleki,... more
Inga Pizāne (born 1986 in Krāslava) is a Latvian poet. Pizāne studied pedagogy in Latvia and Sweden, simultaneously attending lectures at the... more
Denisa Mirena Pişcu is a Romanian poet living in Bucharest. She was born in 1980 at Rădăuţi, Suceava county and graduated from the Faculty of... more
Marko Pogačar was born in 1984. in Split, Yugoslavia. Poet, essayist, prose writer, literary critic. He is an editor of Quorum, a literary magazine,... more
Tom Pow is one of Scotland’s foremost poets, winner of a number of awards. He has also written young adult novels, picture books, radio plays... more
V. Ramaswamy (1960) is a non-fiction writer and translator based in Kolkata, India. As an activist working for the rights of the labouring poor,... more
Francesca Rhydderch’s short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies, most recently in My Heart on My Sleeve, and broadcast on... more
Monique Roffey is a writer born in Trinidad and based in London. She owns two passports and likes to travel back home to Trinidad as often as... more
Ania Rolewska was born in Poland in 1987, but since 2007 she has been living in Aberystwyth, Wales. She graduated from Aberystwyth University with a... more
Gabriel Rosenstock lives in Dublin and writes in Irish Gaelic. He is a poet, essayist, haikuist and translator. He is committed to the periphery and... more
Sioned Puw Rowlands is the Director of Wales Literature Exchange and was responsible for establishing Translators’ House Wales with Sally... more
Charlotte Runcie was born in Edinburgh, has a degree in English from Cambridge University, and has written for newspapers and magazines... more
Jonathan Ruppin is the founder of the English PEN Translated Literature Book Club. He is currently Literary Director at digital publisher Orson &... more
Mamta Sagar is a Kannada poet, playwright and translator living in Bengaluru. She has four collections of poems and plays. Kaada Navilina Hejje... more
Lela Samniashvili was born in 1977. In 1994-1997, she studied at Tbilisi I. Chavchavadze University of Language and Culture, specialising in the... more
Maya Sarishvili was born in 1968 in Tbilisi. She is a poet and a primary school teacher. Her poetry collections include Covering Evident (2001),... more
Karl Schembri (born in 1978) is a Maltese writer and journalist. A sociology graduate from the University of Malta, he has written two novels, Taħt... more
Peter Semolič was born in Ljubljana in 1967 and studied general linguistics and cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana. He is the author... more
Maša Seničić (1990) writes and works in the field of literature, film and media. She obtained her BA and MA degrees at the Faculty of Dramatic... more
Francesc Serés was born in Saidí, Baix Cinca, Catalonia in 1972. He taught History of Ancient and Mediaeval Art at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.... more
Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974. Brought up in London and Abergavenny, south Wales, he read English at New College, Oxford before gaining an M.A.... more
Fahredin Shehu was born in Rahovec in Kosovo, in 1972. He graduated from Prishtina University with a degree in Oriental Studies and then an M.A. in... more
Magnús Sigurðsson (b. 1984) was born in a small fishing village in Iceland. His books include two collections of poetry and a translation of Ezra... more
Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjón is a celebrated Icelandic novelist. He won the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize for his novel The Blue Fox (the... more
Zoë Skoulding has published four full-length collections of poetry, including The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013) which was shortlisted... more
Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collections of poems are Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year... more
Adham Smart graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with BA in Linguistics and Georgian as well as taking... more
Kathrine Sowerby is a writer living in Glasgow, Scotland. Her background is in fine art/textiles and she has an MFA from Glasgow School of Art. Her... more
Amy Spangler is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, with B.A. degrees in Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology and German Language and Literature.... more
Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire... more
Nataša Srdić (née Miljković) was born in Smederevo, Serbia, in 1984. She graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature,... more
Graphic novelist, painter and illustrator Hamid Sulaiman was born in Damascus in 1986. He graduated in architecture and art from the University of... more
Ana Svetel graduated with a Masters degree from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, where she is currently completing her... more
Matilda Södergran (b. 1987) was born in Korsnäs, Finland, but has lived in Malmö, Sweden, for several years. In 2006, she won the first prize in... more
Müge Gürsoy Sökmen is an editor, translator and co-founder of Metis Publications (founded 1982). She has commissioned and prepared for publication... more
Alina Talybova is one of the most active participants in literary life in Azerbaijan. She is active within the writers’ union, active as a... more
Katrin Thomaneck (born in 1977 in Germany) studied classical music before becoming interested in translation studies. She holds an MA in literary... more
Rebecca Thomas (born 1992) is a medieval historian at Cardiff University, specializing in the history, culture, and literature of medieval Wales. She... more
Nhã Thuyên writes, translates, edits books and sometimes organizes literary events. She has authored several books of poetry, short fiction and... more
Sergej Timofejev is a member of Orbita, a creative collective of Russian poets and artists from Latvia, as well as a Riga-based journalist,... more
Arvis Viguls (1987) is a Latvian poet, literary critic and translator from English, Spanish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. His first poetry collection... more
Merja Virolainen has published five collections of poems, Hellyyttäsi taitat gardenian (Because of Your Tenderness You Break a Gardenia, 1990),... more
Sophie Wardell graduated in English Literature from Exeter University and started work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before moving to the Arts and... more
Jennifer (JL) Williams is a poet and programme manager at the Scottish Poetry Library. In both her curating and writing practises, she is interested... more
Ryan van Winkle is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s... more
Nermin Yıldırım was born in Bursa in 1980 and became interested in literature at a young age. Yıldırım wrote her first poems and stories during... more
Meike Ziervogel is a novelist and publisher. In 2008 she founded Peirene Press – a London based, award-winning independent publishing house... more
Henriks Eliass Zēgners (1995) is a poet, born in Jelgava, Latvia. His first collection of poems the elements (elementi) was published in 2013, and... more
Gökçenur Ç’s first collection, Handbook of Every Book, came out in 2006 and Rest of the Words in 2010, both from Yitik Ülke (Lost Land)... more
Andan Özer’s books of poetry are Ateşli Kaval (The Burning Pipe), 1981, Çıngırağın Ölümü (The Death of the Rattle), 1983, Zaman... more
Gonca Özmen graduated from the English Language and Literature Department of Istanbul University in 2004, holds an M.A. and is now studying for a... more
Ararat Şekeryan was born in İstanbul in 1987. He studied Russian Language and Literature in Istanbul University and at Pushkin Institute in Moscow.... more
Jana Šrámková (born in 1982) is a Czech writer. She graduated from Evangelical Theological Seminary in... more
The Latvian prose writer Inga Žolude (b. 1984) received a master’s degree in English from the University of Latvia. She studied English... more