Afghanistan

Aman Mirzai 

Aman Mirzai was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1985, to a family of refugees from Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan. He has been writing poetry for seven years, and has won awards in many nationwide poetry competitions…...

Mahmud Marhun 

Mahmud Marhun is a translator, poet, and prose writer born in Kandahar in 1989 and now residing in Kabul.

Qanbar Ali Tabesh 

Qanbar Ali Tabesh was born in 1969 in Sangshanda village near Ghazni in Afghanistan. He fled from the war in Afghanistan to Iran, where he settled in the city of Qom. He has a B.A. in Persian Literature…...

Zahra Hosseinzadeh 

Zahra Hosseinzadeh was born in 1979 in Lal in Ghor Province, Afghanistan. She became a refugee before she learned to speak and now lives in Mashhad, Iran. She has a B.A. in Theology and is a member of…...

Khan Mohammad Sind 

Khan Mohammad Sind is a poet, prose writer, and journalist based in Kabul.

Parvin Faiz Zadah Malal 

Parwin Faiz Zadah Malal is a poet and prose writer from Kandahar. In 1988 she left Afghanistan and moved to Pakistan; first to Peshawar and later to Karachi where she lives today. She has composed three…...

Asef Soltanzadeh 

Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh is a novelist and short-story writer. He was born 1964 in Kabul and in 1985 he migrated to Pakistan and later to Iran. When the deportation of Afghan refugees began in Iran in…...

Sakina Mohammadi 

Pir Mohammad Karwan 

Pir Mohammad Karwan is a poet and prose writer. He made his debut as a writer in 1993 with the poetry collection From Evening to Evening which since then has been followed up by two more collections of…...

Mohammad Hussain Mohammadi 

Mohammad Hussain Mohammadi is a prose writer, literary scholar, and critic. He was born in Mazar-e Sharif but moved to Iran with his family at the age of seven. He recently returned to Afghanistan. Regarding…...

Zalmay Babakohi 

Zalmay Babakohi is a writer and poet and the publisher of the magazine Zarnegaar, a Dari-language magazine published in Toronto, Canada.  He was born in 1951 in Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan. From…...

Atiq Rahimi 

Atiq Rahimi was born in Afghanistan in 1962, but fled to France in 1984. There he has become renowned as a maker of documentary and feature films, and as a writer. His novel, The Patience Stone was awarded…...

Albania

Luan Starova 

Luan Starova was born on the 14th of August, 1941 in Pogradec. He left Albania with his family and settled in Skopje (in what was then the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, one of the constituent republics…...

Gentian Çoçoli 

Gentian Çoçoli (b. 1972) is a poet and translator from Albania. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Dheu njerėzor [Human Soil] (2006). He has translated several contemporary…...

Fatos Lubonja 

Few have done more to struggle for and constructively criticize Albania's democracy than Fatos Lubonja, writer, editor of the quarterly journal Përpjekja [Endeavor], and representative of the…...

Ismail Kadare 

Ismail Kadare (b. 1936) is a highly regarded Albanian writer of fiction, poetry, and essays. Some of his most famous novels include The General of the Dead Army, Broken April, Chronicle in Stone, and The…...

Ornela Vorpsi 

Ornela Vorpsi was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1968. She left her home country at the age of 22 for Milan, where she lived for six years before moving on to Paris. She graduated from the Université…...

Luljeta Lleshanaku 

Luljeta Lleshanaku is one of Albania's foremost younger poets. Born in Elbasan in 1968, she grew up under virtual house arrest because of her family's opposition to the Stalinist dictatorship of…...

Algeria

Canan Marasligil 

Canan Marasligil is a writer, screenwriter, editor, and literary translator, working mainly in French, English, Turkish, Dutch, and Spanish. Born in Istanbul (1979), and brought up in Brussels, she currently…...

Nawel Louerrad 

Nawel Louerrad was born in 1981 in Oran, Algeria. After training as an architect, she studied theatrical design in Nantes, then theatrical studies in Montpellier. She returned to Algeria and worked …...

Leïla Marouane 

Leïla Marouane was born in Algeria in 1960 and has lived and worked in Paris since 1990. In addition to The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris, she is the author of four novels and one collection…...

Boualem Sansal 

Boualem Sansal was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1949. Trained as an engineer with a doctorate in economics, he began writing novels at the age of fifty after retiring from his job as a high-ranking official…...

Habib Tengour 

Habib Tengour was born in 1947 in Mostaganem, Eastern Algeria, and raised on the Arab and Berber voices of marketplace storytellers. He has lived most of his life between Algeria and Paris. Trained as…...

Maïssa Bey 

Maïssa Bey has published six novels and two story collections in France and Algeria. All await translation into English. Her Nouvelles d'Algerie (Grasset, 1998) won the Grand Prix de la Nouvelle…...

Amara Lakhous 

Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently completed…...

Yasmina Khadra 

Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume of the former Algerian army officer Mohammed Moulessehoul. His newest book, The Sirens of Baghdad, will be published in May 2007. He is the author of six other books…...

Mounsi 

Singer and novelist Mounsi was born in Algeria and sent as a child to live with his father in the industrial Parisian suburb, Nanterre. In borstal he discovered the poetry of François Villon and…...

Mohammed Dib 

Mohammed Dib is considered one of the founding fathers of North African Francophone literature. Born in western Algeria in 1920, he gained fame as a novelist with the publication of his Algérie…...

Mohamed Magani 

Mohamed Magani is the author of the novels La Faille du ciel, which won the Grand Prix Littéraire International de la Ville d'Alger; Esthétique de boucher; Un Temps berlinois; Le Refuge…...

American Samoa

Andorra

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