Choman Hardi

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

Choman Hardi
Born1974
Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan
NationalityKurdish-Iraqi
EducationOxford; University College London; University of Kent
Known forWriter, poet

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

References
  1. Untitled essay Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Modern Poetry in Translation, pp. 156–157, No.17, 2001.
  2. "Kurdish Women Refugees: Obstacles and opportunities", in Forced Migration and Mental Health, pp149–168, 2005.
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