Georgian poet and performance artist Zurab Rtveliashvili meets writer Carola Hansson to discuss the theme of exile, at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, 24th February at 7 pm. Exile is a reality lived by Rtveliashvili, while Hansson treats the theme in her latest novel "Med et namn som mitt" ("With a name like mine").
The Georgian poet Zurab Rtveliashvili meets Swedish writer Carola Hansson on the theme exile. Discussion with journalist Maria Magnusson, and readings.
Café Panorama
Kulturhuset, floor 5
Philo Ikonya is a Kenyan writer, journalist and human rights activist, and presently Oslo City of Refuge's ICORN Guest Writer. She was elected president of Kenyan PEN in 2007. Ikonya has written articles for journals, web magazines and blogs, often commenting on the social and political situation in Kenya. She has also written poetry and novels, and her novel "Kenya, will you marry me", has been translared and published in several countries. She has worked as a lecturer of Spanish at Tangaza College of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, and as a a socio-political commentator in both radio and television. Philo Ikonya was threatened and harassed for her work and political activism, and can no longer work in Kenya.
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The Spillopperiet theater group makes Digital Stories for Shahrazad -
stories for life.
The Spillopperiet theater group makes Digital Stories for Shahrazad -
stories for life.
The Spillopperiet theater group makes Digital Stories for Shahrazad - stories for life.
Kurset ledes av forfatterne Odveig Klyve (Norge) og Mansur Rajih (Yemen/Norge), og går over fire kvelder.
Kurset ledes av forfatterne Odveig Klyve (Norge) og Mansur Rajih (Yemen/Norge), og går over fire kvelder.
Literary encounter with Carlos Aguilera, Karla Suarez, Josefin Adolfsson and Rene Vazquez Diaz.
Literary encounter with Carlos Aguilera, Karla Suarez and Josefin Adolfsson.
Between 22nd and 25th February, as part of the Shahrazad project, over 200 students at schools across Norfolk will be working with a professional writer and a refugee to compose a series of Letters to Europe. These missives from the young people of the UK to their counterparts in Europe will form part of the international conversation about the future of Europe, and the hopes and dreams young people harbour for it.
Safaa Alwan is the ICORN Guest Writer in Skien City of Refuge.
Pablo Ramos grew up in greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, the country which is this year's Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair. He is a musician and a writer, and has won important Latin American literature awards with his poems and stories. His first novel was "The Origin of Sadness" ("El origin de la tristeza"/"Der Ursprung der Traurigkeit").
Pegāh Ahmadi is an Iranian poet, scholar, literary critic and translator of poetry. She is currently the ICORN Guest Writer in Frankfurt City of Refuge.
Pegāh Ahmadi (Persian پگاه احمدی) is an Iranian poet, scholar, literary critic and translator of poetry. She is currently the ICORN Guest Writer in Frankfurt City of Refuge.
Ahmadi began writing poetry at the age of seven, and made her début as a poet at age seventeen by the publication of a poem in the literary magazine Takāpu, edited by Mansur Kushān. She has studied Persian literature at the University of Tehran, and regularly contributed to literary magazines on subject matters related to criticism of verse, theoretical issues pertaining to poetry and translation of poems. She is a member of Iranian Writers Association. In 2007 she was awarded the Celebrity of Poetry Award of the Iranian Journalists' Institute.
In the beginning of her literary career, Pegah Ahmadi's poems were associated with linguistic experimentation as was the case with many Iranian poets in the 1990s. But then she took up political and social themes because she considered them to be more relevant. She has especially taken up issues of the history and the changing role of women in society, reflecting also what consequences these changes have for writing as a woman.
Ahmadi has published several books of poetry, anthologies, literary reviews and translation of American poetry (like Sylvia Plath). Before coming to Germany, she worked as editor of the literary review Paperik and taught "Poetry in cinema" at the Film School Tehran.
She says of her own approach to her work:
"There comes a time in your life when sentimentalism can provide no answer to everyday questions. You are confronted by the blackness of your culture and the depth of your history and are compelled to devote attention to the responsibility that society brings with it. Personal experiences and abstract games can no longer match such entities."
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Anisur Rahman, the first official ICORN Guest Writer in Uppsala, is a poet, playwright, literary critic, essayist, novelist, translator and journalist from Bangladesh.
Amin Ghazaei from Iran is an activist of the leftist student movement in Iran and a writer and journalist with a broad curriculum of articles in different Iranian journals.
