Zakariya AMATAYA

A portrait of Zakariya Amataya.
  • Asia
  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Thailand
Thai

Zakariya AMATAYA ซะการีย์ยา อมตยา (poet, editor, translator; Thailand) won the 2010 S.E.A. Write Award for his first poetry collection, No Women in Poetry. He followed with a second collection, หากภายในเราลึกราวมหาสมุทร [But in Us It Is Deep as the Sea], in 2013. After 25 years in Bangkok and India, Amataya returned home to Narathiwat in 2016 to write poems and stories about the southern Thai borderlands and to cofound a journal called The Melayu Review. His third poetry collection, due out in 2024, is called Posthumous Poems from Paradise. His participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Happening Now

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  • 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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