Choman Hardi (Kurdish: چۆمان هەردی),(born 29 January 1974) is a Kurdish poet and translator.[1]
Choman Hardi | |
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 Choman Hardi in 2023. | |
| Born | 29/01/1974 |
| Nationality | Kurdish-Iraqi |
| Alma mater | Queen's College, University of Oxford; University College London; University of Kent |
| Known for | Writer, poet |
Background
editHardi was born in Sulaymaniyah on January 29th, 1974. The youngest among the 7 children of the famous Kurdish poet Ahmad Hardi.[2]
Hardi fled Iraq along with her family in the late 1980s and was granted asylum in the UK in 1993. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the Queen's College, University of Oxford, her Masters of Arts (MA) at the University College London and PhD at the University of Kent. [3]
She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and two collections of English poems, Life for Us (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and Considering the Women (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2016. Her articles have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation[4][5]
Career
editShe is a former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink! and has organized creative writing workshops for the British Council in the UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and India. She is a former poet-in-residence at Moniack Mhor Writers' Centre (Scotland), Villa Hellebosch (Belgium), Hedgebrook Women Writers' Retreat (USA) and The Booth (Shetland). As an academic researcher, she has been a visiting scholar in The Centre for Multiethnic Research (Uppsala University), Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin) and The Department of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Between 2009 and 2011, she was a Senior Associate Member of St Anthony's College, Oxford. In 2014, she moved back to her home city of Sulaimani to take up a post at the American University of Iraq, becoming chair of the Department of English in 2015.
In 2015, she found Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS) at The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. The center mainly focused on gender studies.[6]
In 2023, she was awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.[7]
Books
edit- Hardi, Choman (1996), Return with no memory (in Kurdish), Denmark, ISBN 87-984331-6-4
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - — (1998), Rûnakîy sêberekan : şîʻir (Light of the Shadows), Kitêbî Rabûn, 14. (in Kurdish), Rabûn, ISBN 9789197335447
- — (2000), Light Mirrors and Shadows: Poems, OCLC 427634821
- — (2004), Life for Us, Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 9781852246440
- — (2011), Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq, Voices in development management., Farnham, Surrey, ISBN 978-0754694335
- — (2015), Considering the Women, Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 9781780372785
References
edit- ^ "Poem of the week: Dibs Camp, the Women's Prison by Choman Hardi". the Guardian. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Choman Hardi". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
- ^ "biography". Choman Hardi. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "Untitled". Modern Poetry in Translation (17): 156–157. 2001. ISSN 0969-3572. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
- ^ "Kurdish Women Refugees: Obstacles and opportunities", in Forced Migration and Mental Health, pp149–168, 2005.
- ^ ""With Education You Can Face Every Struggle": Gendered Higher Education in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan - Part Three: The Gender Problem". 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Deutsch-Französischer Preis für Menschenrechte und Rechtsstaatlichkeit 2023" (in German). 2023-12-12. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
External links
edit- Profile at the Poetry Archive[permanent dead link] with poems written and audio
- Anna Battista, "5 Book Reviews", Erasing Clouds, issue 28, November 2004
- Choman Hardi reading her poetry - a British Library recording, (audio) 27 May 2008
- Life for Us by Choman Hardi. At Bloodaxe Books
- "Choman Hardi", Exiled Writers
- "An Interview with Choman Hardi", Textualities, June 2005