Soheil NAJM

2009 Resident

Asia
Western Asia

Asia
Western Asia
Iraq

Asia

Arabic

Soheil NAJM has published four books of poetry, [‘Breaking the Phrase’] (1994), [‘Your Carpenter O Light’] (2002), [‘No Paradise Outside the Window’] (2008), and the anthology Flowers in Flame (2008). In addition, he has translated selections of work by Nikos Kazantzakis, Alasdair Gray, Ted Hughes, and José Saramago. Najm is currently the editor of the Althaqafa Alajnabia ["Foreign Culture"] journal in Baghdad. He participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.

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We are delighted to note that Sridala SWAMI’s new poetry collection, Run for the Shadows, appeared in late December 2021.
We are delighted to see several IWP alumni on the just-out 2022 PEN America Literary Awards longlists, whether as translators—Jeremy TIANG, Piotr SOMMER—or as authors: Alejandra COSTAMAGNA, Najwan DARWISH, Mortada GZAR, LO Yi-Chin, Marie SILKEBERG.
In Jeune Afrique, Umar TIMOL discusses biases inherent in recent literary prizes awarded to African writers.
Among the twelve distinguished inaugural honorees of the International Writers programme, established in 2021 by the Royal Society of Literature to “recognise the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English,” is Dubravka UGREŠIĆ.
An enthusiastic review in NYTimes of In Case of Emergency, newly translated, by the Iranian novelist Mahsa MOHEBALI.

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