Monthly Exiled Lit Cafe

Monday 1st April 2019 at 7pm

Fresh off the Page:
Exciting New Writing by Exiled Writers
With Music too

image: Reza

Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX
(tube Covent Garden or Leicester Square)

Alireza Abiz – Hamid Ismailov with John Farndon –
Fawzi Karim with Anthony Howell –
Shabibi Shah Nala – Edin Suljic

Alireza Abiz’s book Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Politics and Culture since 1979 is forthcoming in 2019 by Bloomsbury. Dr Abiz is an Iranian poet, literary critic and translator. He has published six collections of poetry in Persian and has translated some leading English language poets into Persian.

Hamid Ismailov’s latest book is The Devil’s Dance the first of his Uzbek novels published in the UK and the first major Uzbek work to be translated directly into English. Hamid fled authoritarian Uzbekistan for the UK in 1992, and works for the BBC World Service. He is known for novels, such as The Dead Lake that were originally written in Russian.

Fawzi Karim’s latest poetry collection is Incomprehensible Lesson published by Carcanet (Jan 2019). Fawzi is a well-known Iraqi poet, writer and painter. He has published over twenty-three books of poetry and sixteen of prose.

Shabibi Shah Nala’s novel is Innocent Deception. From Afghanistan, she is also the author of the powerful memoir Where Do I Belong?

Edin Suljic’s poetry collection is Personal Things and the Rest published by Hafan Books, 2018. Born in the former Yugoslavia he has been an active member of EWI since its formation. Part of Bards without Borders poets’ collective Edin is developing a new project on patriotism in modern Britain.

Music: Pete Evans and Mark Braby

Open Mic/Discussion
Host: Amir Darwish
£5 entry/£3 EWI 2019 members and asylum seekers