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Choman Hardi ( ku, چۆمان هەردی),(born 1974) is a
Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...
poet, translator and painter.


Background

She has published three volumes of poetry in
Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...
and two collections of
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poems, ''Life for Us'' (
Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specializing in poetry. History Bloodaxe Books was founded in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Neil Astley, who is still editor and managing director. Bloodaxe moved its editorial office to Northumbe ...
, 2004) and ''Considering the Women'' (
Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specializing in poetry. History Bloodaxe Books was founded in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Neil Astley, who is still editor and managing director. Bloodaxe moved its editorial office to Northumbe ...
, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2016. Her articles have appeared in ''Modern Poetry in Translation''


Career

She is a former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink! and has organized creative writing workshops for the
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. She is a former poet-in-residence at
Moniack Mhor Moniack Mhor is a creative writing centre in Scotland. Based in the Scottish Highlands, Moniack Mhor is fourteen miles from Inverness. The centre is a registered charity and is supported by Creative Scotland. History The centre has given reside ...
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 of the 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, becoming chair of the Department of English in 2015. In 2015, she found Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS) at
The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) ( ku, زانکۆی ئەمریکی لە عێراق، سلێمانی; Arabic: الجامعة الأمريكية في العراق، السليمانية) is a not-for-profit, private institution for ...
. The center mainly focused on gender studies.


Books

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See also

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Iraqi art Iraqi art is one of the richest art heritages in world and refers to all works of visual art originating from the geographical region of what is present day Iraq since ancient Mesopotamian periods. For centuries, the capital, Baghdad was the Med ...
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Islamic art Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslim populations. Referring to characteristic traditions across a wide ra ...
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List of Iraqi artists The following is a list of important artists, including visual arts, poets and musicians, who were born in Iraq, active in Iraq or whose body of work is primarily concerned with Iraqi themes or subject matter. Note: This article uses Arabic nami ...


References


External links


Profile at the Poetry Archive
with poems written and audio *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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hardi, Choman 1974 births Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of Kent Uppsala University alumni Kurdish poets