Phodiso MODIRWA

A portrait of Phodiso MODIRWA.
  • Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Botswana
English

Phodiso MODIRWA (poet, nonfiction writer; Botswana) is the author of Speaking in Code, a chapbook published by Akashic Books as part of the Tisa: New-Generation African Poets box set. She performed at the inauguration ceremony of the current president of Botswana, and her work has received the Botswana President’s Award in Contemporary Poetry. Modirwa’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in adda, Guernica, Brittle Paper, Lolwe, Agbowó, 20.35 Africa, and other literary magazines. In 2022, she was a resident poet at the Gaborone Art Residency Centre. Her participation is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. 

Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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