Choman Hardi

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Choman Hardi (Kurdish: چۆمان هەردی‎),(born 1974) is a contemporary Kurdish poet, translator and painter.

Background[]

She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish. She has published 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^[1][2]

Career[]

She has been a former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink! and has organized creative writing workshops for the British Council in UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and India. She was 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 (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 (AUIS), becoming chair of the department of English in 2015.

Books[]

• — (1996), Return with no memory (in Kurdish), Denmark, ISBN 87-984331-6-4
• — (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

See also[]

• Iraqi art
• Islamic art
• List of Iraqi artists

References[]

External links[]

• Profile at the Poetry Archive with poems written and audio
• 5 Book Reviews by Anna Battista, 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.