Nâzım Hikmet Ran,commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the “lyrical flow of his statements”. Described as a “romantic communist” and “romantic revolutionary”, he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated from Turkish by Neil P Doherty.
We reached the first milestone of selection with the announcement of the short listed stories for...
Adrian Bravi’s four short stories are instead teeming with a more homogeneous chorus of protagonists – gangs of children inhabiting poor neighborhoods in a small town in Argentina. The glue that holds together their esprit de corps is a childlike imaginative misreading of and sometimes contempt for the adult world, which leads them to exercise their power as a group by tormenting or further excluding marginalized people in their community.
Ishrat Tania is a poet and writer from Bangladesh. Her literary work revolves around perceptions and thoughts about human relations, despair, dreams, nature, transcendence, society and politics. Her published books in Bengali include Nemeche Ichche Niribili (2016), Beejpurush (2018), Mad Ek Swarnava Shishir (2020), Alaper Amphitheater (2020).
Francesca Farina is an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and culture professional. She has published a number of poetry works and a novel, Casa di mortin(www.bertonieditore.it). Literary awards or mentions include the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Eugenio Montale, Premio Tracce-Pablo Neruda, Premio Nazionale per il Sonetto Renato Fucini, and the Premio Scriveredonna.
Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia, 1941) is author of two dozen books of poems and essays. He has translated into Bulgarian Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s mature tragedies, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dylan Thomas’s poems.
Trishna Basak is a poet, writer and translator with many books to her credit. Her story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta.
The Entry for The Tagore Award for Translated Fiction 2021” in July ended last week. We would like to use this brief opportunity to thank with all our heart, our sponsors, judges, writers, participants and volunteers who made it possible.
Humayun Ahmed was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and lecturer.
Ssebo Lule (pen name) is a Luganda performance poet and translator born and living in Kampala, Uganda. His debut poetry collection Ogenda wa was published in 2018. Since then, he has performed at several arts festivals