Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bangla literature. His signature style is using native realities as his settings, and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colours. The story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta.
Two excellent book on refugee literature, first hand accounts both, are reviewed by Somejeet Dey together to bring home the point of helplessness and the long urduous journey of a refugee in search of hope.
Dreams and nightmares take turns in every sleep cycle. They even invade the hours awake. There shall no longer be a day without learning the shape of separation, without looking at broken pieces of heart, without longing for acceptance from foreign soils, skins and songs.The Antonym, sought out literary expressions—tales and artefacts built in that sleeplessness and plight.
Tara Thiel is a Visual Artist pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing & Literature. Her work has been published in anthologies and periodicals including Twyckenham Notes, Variant Literature, Inkwell Journal, NOVUS Literary Arts and others.
Giuseppe Pensabene Perez was born in Italy in 1984, is a Pisces, a linguist, a tobacco smoker and polyglot. A voracious, omnivorous reader. His favorite authors are Steven King and Roberto Bolaño.
Ülkü Tamer (1937- 2018) was a Turkish poet, journalist, actor and translator. He is one of the leading representatives of the Second New poetry movement that emerged in the 1950s.
Brenda Porster writes both in English and Italian. Her poems appeared in numerous literary magazines, poetry anthologies and online literary sites in Italy and abroad, and have been translated into several languages.
Erri De Luca, born in Naples in 1950, has published more than 60 books, numerous collections of short stories and poems, many of which translated in more than 30 languages.
Director Yimer presented the James K. Binder lecture entitled “Names and Bodies: Tales from the Other Side of the Sea” at UC San Diego, on May 6, 2015.
From Tangier, Morocco, Nadia Benjelloun is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She graduated from the University of New England with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in May 2021 and has a forthcoming novel.