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Anders Widmark

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Anders Widmark

Anders Widmark (1973– ) lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a PhD candidate at Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology. Besides teaching Persian and translating Persian/Dari/Pashto literature, he is working on a thesis with the working title Voices at the Borders, Prose on the Margins: Exploring the Contemporary Pashto Short Story in a Context of War and Crisis.

Articles by Anders Widmark

The View from Within: An Introduction to New Afghan Literature

By Anders Widmark

Much of what is said and written about Afghanistan in the West today is still tainted by an outside perspective on the situation

The Idol’s Dust

By Zalmay Babakohi

The great Buddha had broken to pieces and disintegrated into millions of smaller Buddhas.

Translated from Dari by Anders Widmark

Multilingual

To Arrive

By Asef Soltanzadeh

Where did you board the wrong airplane? Tehran? Istanbul? Frankfurt?

Translated from Dari by Anders Widmark

Dasht-e Leili

By Mohammad Hussain Mohammadi

The man next to me is licking the sweat on my arm.

Translated from Dari by Anders Widmark

Hate

By Parvin Faiz Zadah Malal

I have told you several times to throw that to the dogs, not to give it to the Kabulis.

Translated from Pashto by Anders Widmark

The Spectacle

By Khan Mohammad Sind

Sarwar was shot through the air like a glittering bird.

Translated from Pashto by Anders Widmark

The Man Who Went into the Hills

By Pir Mohammad Karwan

I will destroy my television and smash my radio as well.

Translated from Pashto by Anders Widmark

Multilingual

Embraced by the Grave

By Mahmud Marhun

You have never been a mujahid.

Translated from Pashto by Anders Widmark