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BIOGRAPHY OF NEVON KOCOGLU Nevin Koçoğlu is a Turkish poet, jounalist, environmentalist and human rights activist. Born in Gaziantep, she lived in Istanbul during her childhood years and moved,when she was an adult,to the Turkish capital Ankara where she currently lives. She completed a B.Sc. degree in Public Administration at Anadolu University in Turkey and is studying at the same university for a second degree in Sociology. Koçoğlu’s poems are translated into Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Kurdish , Persian, Serbian and Spanish. She is the winner of Vahittin Bozgeyik Poetry Award, 2012. She participated in poetry festivals in Turkey and number of other counries where she read her poems. She has many contributions to various international anthologies. Her poems are published in a large number of prestigious literari journals and magazines. Koçoğlu is actively campaigning to build village libraries in all the regions of Turkey, Her books: Tanrının Vişne Bahçesi(...

PUBLISHED IN ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY. TO OUR LAND (UNTUK TANAH AIR KITA) – Mahmoud DARWISH Translated into MALAY LANGUAGE by Siti Ruqaiyah HASHIM POSTED ON APRIL 14, 2020 BY AGRONSH MAHMOUD DARWISH Born 13th March 1941 in Al Birwa, Galilie, Mahmoud Darwish a Palestinian poet and writer is regarded as the Palestinian National Poet. Published some 30 poetry and prose books throughout his life largely spent in exile amongst others in Lebanon, Egypt, and died in Texas on 9th August 2008. He won many international awards for his poems depicting the frustrations of loss of his homeland, anguish and pain of dispossession and exiles, imprisonment and a tragedy called Palestine. He also served as editor to many Arab newspapers in Palestine and various Arab countries. The New York Times described him as ‘one of the greatest Arab Poet,’ with his works translated into more than 20 languages. In one poetry reading in Lebanon, some 25,000 people attended to hear him. His poem Identity Card...

BIODATA OF MANSOUR NOORBAKHSH. Mansour Noorbakhsh writes poems and stories in both English and Farsi, his first language, and has published books, poems, and articles in both languages. His book length poem: “In Search of Shared Wishes” is published in 2017. He tries to be a voice for freedom, human rights, and environment in his writings. He presents The Contemporary Canadian Poets in a weekly Persian radio program (https://persianradio.net/poets/ or https://t.me/ottawaradio) Mansour’s poems are published in “WordCity Lit. (https://wordcitylit.ca)”, Verse Afire, Parkland Poets, several anthologies, and other places. His poems are translated in Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, Macedonian and Chinese, Mansour Noorbakhsh is an Electrical Engineer, and lives with his wife, his daughter and his son in Toronto, Canada. POEMS BY MANSOUR NOORBAKHSH NESTING NIGHTINGALES Your heart never planted hatred and resentment To: Ukrainian children after Russian invasion who ruined...

REPUBLISHED FROM ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY THE COTTAGE (PONDOK) – Poem by GINO LEINEWEBER (Germany) Translated into Malay Language by Siti Ruqaiyah HASHIM POSTED ON MARCH 16, 2020 BY AGRONSH 0 BIODATA OF GINO LEINEWEBER (Germany) Gino Leineweber; born 1944 in Hamburg/Germany. Since 1998 active as a writer. 2003 to 2008 he used to be editor/editor in chief of the Buddhist Monthly Magazine. From 2003 to 2015 Chairman of the Writers Association Hamburg. Thereafter Honorary Chairman. Member in German Exile-P.E.N. (PEN-Center German-speaking Authors Abroad). Since 2013 President of the Three Seas Writers’ and Translators’ Council (TSWTC) based in Rhodes, Greece. He has published poetry books in English as well as in German language and was honored with several international awards for his poetry THE COTTAGE He found his way into the mountains Snow caps and all and a cottage below the peaks It didn’t seem so far away But vanished and reappeared It happened again and again H...

THIS INTERVIEW WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN CAMPUS 247.WORDPRESS.COM MAGAZINE ON 11TH AUGUST 2018. IT WAS ALSO PUBLISHED IN GREENWATCH BG AND OTHERS Rokiah Hashim (RH): Moaen Shalabia, tell me more about your family and education background. Moaen Shalabia (MS): I was born to a family of farmers in Palestine, in a village called Al-Maghar in the Galilee. I was born on 14th October 1958 and married with two sons. I am one of the Arab Palestinian minority living in Israel. I finished my studies in Haifa University in Business Administration and Management. RH: When did you start writing and why? MS: As poet and prose writer, my writing career began in 1973, when I published my poems in national local newspapers and in Arabic papers abroad. My first book published was book of poetry in 1989. It was due to talent at first. After that, grief became the first reason for writing and my great love for my spiritual father, the great poet Mahmoud Darwish, and influences from my readin...

BIODATA OF DOMENICO PISANA DOMENICO PISANA was born in Modica in 1958, is the Founding President of the Caffè Letterario Quasimodo, a literary circle, which has been promoting for ten years the cultural, poetical and literary valorization of the Iblean territory. After having finished his degree in Theology, he obtained a Ph.d in Moral Theology at the Accademia Alfonsiana dell’Università Lateranense and the II level Master in School Leadership. He has been a journalist since 1985 and is the Director of the online newspaper www.radiortm.it . He published: 10 poetry books, 11 volumes about literary criticism , among which there is the essay on Quasimodo Quel Nobel venuto dal Sud – Salvatore Quasimodo tra gloria ed oblio (2006), 11 theological and ethical texts , among which the book Sulla tua parola getterò le reti (1999), published by Edizioni San Paolo, stands out and were fully translated in Polish and Spanish language, 3 historical and political volumes. Domenico Pisana’s poetry...

Tatjana Tomic, poet and graduate librarian, lives in Gradacac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she works as a school librarian. She has published poetry, haiku, short stories and literary criticism in numerous cultural and literary magazines. Her work is represented in more than hundred and fifty international collections and anthologies of poetry and short stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Balkan, Africa and Australia. Her poetry was translated to English, French, Macedonian, Greek and Romani. For her work she received numerous international awards and recognitions, such as: Second Prize at the International Mesopotamia Festival 2019 (Belgrade, Serbia, 2019); Award for the best foreign author of the event at the Fourth Poetic Manifesto "The Ohrid Poetic Pearl" (Ohrid, Northern Macedonia, 2019); Special recognitions "Orpheus scroll" at the International Poetry Meetings "Orpheus on the Danube" (Kostolac, 2018; 2019; 2021); Third Prize for the Haiku Cycle a...