Claribel alegria biography of alberta

A poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist, she became a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America writing under the pseudonym Claribel.

Argues that Claribel Alegría's novel Cenizas de Izalco “recovers a traumatic episode” in which 30, peasants were murdered.

History / Canada / General; Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions Claribel Alegría; Tatjana Aleksic; Jonathan Alexander; Anna Rose.

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Judges

Nick Laird

Nick Laird was born in Dungannon in County Tyrone in A poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic, and former lawyer, his awards include the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a Forward Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. For many years he taught … Read More

Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels is a novelist and poet. Her books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. Among many other honours, she is a Royal … Read More

Tomasz Różycki

Tomasz Różycki was born in and is a poet, translator, and essayist. He is the author of several volumes of poetry including Hulanki i swawole (), and the prose work Zlodzieje zarówek (). He garnered critical acclaim for the book-le

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Fellowship Judges

Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, and the essay collection, Abandon Me. Her work has been widely anthologized and appears in publications including Tin House, Granta, The Kenyon Review, prärie Schooner, Glamour, Guernica, brev Road, Salon, The New York Times, Hunger Mountain, Portland Review, Dissent, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Bitch Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Drunken Boat, and Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York. She's been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, CNN, Anderson Cooper Live, and elsewhere. Her essays have twice received special mention from the Best American Essays anthology and have won prizes from prärie Schooner, Story Quarterly, and The Center for Women Writers. She is the recipient of fellowships from the bröd Loaf Writer’s Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Lower Manhattan Cult

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Writers &#; Translators

Mahmud al-Kashgari
Author, Uyghur
Mahmud al-Kashgari was an eleventh-century Uyghur scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. He composed the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages.
Ibrahim al-Koni
Author, Arabic
Ibrahim Al-Koni is a Libyan writer and one of the most prolific Arabic novelists. Born in in the Fezzan Region, Ibrahim al-Koni was brought up on the tradition of the Tuareg, popularly known as “the veiled men” or “the blue men.” By , al-Koni had published more than eighty books and received numerous awards. All written in Arabic, his books have been translated into thirty-five languages. His novel Gold Dust appeared in English in In , Al-Koni was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
Riyad al-Salih al-Hussein
Author, Arabic
Riyad al-Salih al-Hussein () suffered throughout his short life from deafness, kidney failure, and diabet