Some of Arc's Poets and Translators

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• A Landscape Blossoms Within Me

Moe Zaw (b. 1964) put his fountain nib on a blank sheet of paper for a poem for the first time in 1978. His debut collection Will was published in 2007. [...more]

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• Bones Will Crow, ed. ko ko thett and James Byrne

Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, was born in Tel Aviv and studied philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University. At first he wrote poetry, but later concentrated on the theater. [...more]

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• Lives of the Dead: Collected Poems

Pandora (b. 1974) is from Burma delta. Her precocious literary talent has earned her several awards at poetry readings and essay competitions since her school days. As an English major at Rangoon University, she wrote poems and short stories for campus magazines under several pen names. [...more]

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• Bones Will Crow, ed. ko ko thett and James Byrne

Aged sixty-four, and still a prolific writer, Aung Cheimt somehow survives solely on the income from his poetry, publishing regularly in weekly journals in Rangoon. [...more]

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• Bones Will Crow, ed. ko ko thett and James Byrne

Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 and is now Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Anne's College. He is the author of two collections of poems, published by Carcanet, a novel and several academic books about French literature and modern poetry. In 2009 he was made 'Chevalier des Palmes académiques' for services to French culture, and in 2011 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres'. [...more]

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• Seizing: Places, Hélène Dorion
• Europe in Poems

Hasmik Simonian has published two collections of poetry, Lunatic Words (2005) and Untidy Rooms (2010) [...more]

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• Six Armenian Poets, ed. Razmik Davoyan

Janne Nummela was born in 1973 in Oitti, Hausjärvi, and still resides there,
although his day job is working as a patent officer in Helsinki. Nummela
studied acoustics at the Helsinki University of Technology and
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• Six Finnish Poets, ed. Teemu Manninen

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• Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal

Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967. He writes poetry and prose and also children's literature. [...more]

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• The Play of Waves

Philip Wilson is an experienced and widely-published translator and academic who currently lives and works in Norwich at the University of East Anglia. [...more]

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• The Bright Rose: Early German Verse 800–1250

Azniv Sahakyan was born in 1959 in Yerevan. She studied philology at Yerevan State University. Her first poem was published in 1986 in Literary Weekly. Since then she has been published regularly in the literary press including Garoun and Nork journals. [...more]

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• Six Armenian Poets, ed. Razmik Davoyan

HABIB TENGOUR was born at Mostaganem in 1947. Poet, writer and anthropologist, he has constantly moved back and forth between France and Algeria. [...more]

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• The Parley Tree, ed. Patrick Williamson

Manuel Forcano (born Barcelona, 1968) has a PhD in Semitic Philology. He completed his studies in Israel, Syria and Egypt, and has worked as a lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at the University of Barcelona (1996-2004). He has worked as a researcher and playwright at the Jordi Savall Early Music International Centre Foundation since 2004. [...more]

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• Six Catalan Poets, ed. Pere Ballart
• Maps of Desire

Maung Thein Zaw (b. 1959) was born to a family of goldsmiths in Myaing Myo, Pakkokku District, in upper Burma. Two book of his poems, Dripping Dewdrops and Scenery 21, were published in one single volume in 2008. As a zat dancer and poet, Maung Thein Zaw's life had always been peripatetic, performing during the nights and dreaming during the days. As a Buddhist, he has tried to understand 'the Noble Eightfold Path' to the best of his capacity, while he sees his poetry as an attempt to gauge the essence of life. [...more]

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• Bones Will Crow, ed. ko ko thett and James Byrne

Hinsey's work is concerned with history, ethics and democracy. Her first-hand accounts and analyses of the impact of the 2012 Russian presidential elections, the 2010 Polish presidential plane crash, Hungarian politics, Václav Havel's ethical legacy and post-1989 German reconstruction have been published in The New England Review. [...more]

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• The Illegal Age

Matilda Södergran was born in 1987 in Korsnäs, Finland. She currently lives in Malmö, Sweden and has recently completed her Master of Arts in Translation at Lunds University. [...more]

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• Six Finnish Poets, ed. Teemu Manninen

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• Bigger than the Facts, Jan Baeke

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• The Atlas of Lost Beliefs

Josep Lluis Aguilo (born Manacor, Mallorca, 1967), poet and businessman, works as a marketing and advertising director. In 2007, the Manacor School of Mallorcan Language gave him its Recognition of Merits Award for his work in writing Catalan poetry and helping to make it better known. [...more]

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• Six Catalan Poets, ed. Pere Ballart
• Lunarium

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