Guest writer, Potenza City of Refuge 2009 - 2010
Hamza Zirem is an Algerian writer and poet, Kabylian from the Berber region. He has published four books of poetry as well as other books. In 2007, he was forced to flee Algeria and in 2009 he became the guest writer of Potenza. In Italy, he published the book Rencontres littéraires à Potenza (2009). It contains lectures about four writers with a connection to Algeria, as well as his own poems.
Guest writer, Lillehammer City of Refuge 2008 - 2010
Prudence Uriri has been a freedom fighter of the Zimbabwean liberation war. She worked at Zimbabwe's Broadcasting Corporation Television before joining the independent production house of CVU. She is the founder of the production company Eye for Africa. She came as an ICORN guest writer to Lillehammer and currently teaches film at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Zènia is a journalist, poet and novelist, and the ICORN Guest Writer of Barcelona City of Refuge. He writes in the Kabylic-Berber language of Amazigh, and is a human rights activist. His books are prohibited in Algeria.
