Abdulla Pashew

eBook, ePUB

Dictionary of Midnight (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Abdulla Pashew is the most influential Kurdish poet alive.

In Kurdistan, his readings draw audiences in the thousands.

Translator Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse is very well-known in the translation and Kurdish literary communities.

Another big draw will be the foreword by acclaimed author William T. Vollmann, who won the National Book Award for his novel Europe Central.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 2.13MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

When he gives readings in Kurdistan, Abdulla Pashew draws audiences in the thousands. In addition to his eight volumes of poetry, Pashew is a prolific translator, fluent in Russian and English, responsible for bringing Whitman and Pushkin to Kurdish readership. He holds a master's degree in pedagogy and a doctorate in philology. Dictionary of Midnight is the first book-length selection of his poetry to appear in English.

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse is a poet, translator, and co-director of Kashkul, a research, translation, and arts collaborative. She has lived and worked in Iraq since 2011, during which time she has dedicated herself to bringing Kurdish poets to English-speaking audiences, including Kajal Ahmad's Handful of Salt. Her poems, translations, and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Sewanee Review, and World Literature Today, among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781646050222
• Artikelnr.: 58405032