Choman Hardi

Choman Hardi (Kurdish: چۆمان هەردی),(born 1974) is a Kurdish poet, translator and painter.[1]

Choman Hardi
Choman Hardi in 2023.
Born1974
Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan
NationalityKurdish-Iraqi
EducationOxford; University College London; University of Kent
Known forWriter, poet

Background

Hardi was born in Sulaymaniyah. She is the youngest of seven children, and her father was the Kurdish poet Ahmad Hardi.[2]

She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and 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[3][4]

Career

She is a former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink! and has organized creative writing workshops for the British Council in the UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and India. She is a 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 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. The center mainly focused on gender studies.[5]

Books
  • Hardi, Choman (1996), Return with no memory (in Kurdish), Denmark, ISBN 87-984331-6-4{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • — (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. "Poem of the week: Dibs Camp, the Women's Prison by Choman Hardi". the Guardian. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. "Choman Hardi". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  3. "Untitled". Modern Poetry in Translation (17): 156–157. 2001. ISSN 0969-3572. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
  4. "Kurdish Women Refugees: Obstacles and opportunities", in Forced Migration and Mental Health, pp149–168, 2005.
  5. ""With Education You Can Face Every Struggle": Gendered Higher Education in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan - Part Three: The Gender Problem". 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2023-01-03.


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