User:Pegah Ahmadi/sandbox

Pegah Ahmadi is one of the Iranians prominent contemporary poet. A great number of her poems has been translated into English, French, German and Dutch. She began writing poetry at age seven and at age seventeen she started her works professionally and published her poems in numerous well known literary magazines and newspapers. Her first poetry collection titled “On the Final Sol” was published in 1999 which was embraced by readers and critics. Her second collection titled “Cadence” was published in 2001 and her third titled “My These Days Is Throat” which is one of her most significant works ,was published in 2004. In this book Pegah points out important issues such as sociopolitical situation of Iranian women throughout the history. This collection, also received very good reviews by numerous poetry critics. Pegah Ahmadi, has,also,translated two works from English into Farsi .One of them is an anthology of poems written by Sylvia Plath, the well known American poet, titled ” Love Song of the Insane Girl” ; and the other is “ 101 Haiku From the Past Till Today” written by Jacky Hardy. In addition, she has authored a research work titled “ Woman’s Poem From Beginning Till Today” which consists of an anthology of poems written by Iranian female poets and illustrates the women’s poetry of Iran from classical era till present time.Since 2004 ,due to severe censorship and lack of freedom of speech, Pegah was not permitted to publish any of her works. In 2009 she was invited by ICORN ( International Cities of Refuge Network) which is associated with International Pen Organization and moved to Frankfurt, Germany and has been residing there since. Throughout her stay in Frankfurt, Pegah Ahmadi Received numerous invitations to participate in seminars and conferences, as a guest speaker in Germany, England, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and Turkey.In 2010 a collection of her socio-critique poems in Farsi language titled “ I Was Not Cold” was published by Sujet Publishing company in Germany. This collection also translated into German ‘’ Mir war nicht kalt’’. In 2011 Pegah received a fellowship award by Brown University in United States. Now she lives in the United states. About Pegah  Ahmadi  in different newspapers and media:

http://www.browndailyherald.com/lit-arts-gives-voice-to-oppressed-poet-1.2670153

http://rhein-main.business-on.de/autorin-pegah-ahmadi-freiheit-_id9144.html

http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/detailseite/artikel/pegah-ahmadi-fluechtet-nach-deutschland.html

http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/goepferts-runde--pegah-ahmadi-dichterin-im-sachsenhaeuser-exil,1472798,8637568.html

http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/41099-zuflucht-in-frankfurt-fuer-autorin-pegah-ahmadi.htm?hilite=Ohm

http://www.litprom.de/zuflucht.html

http://europenews.dk/en/node/28952

http://www.sujet-verlag.de/index.php?id=10&L=1

http://www.fr-online.de/literatur/autorin-im-exil-geduldige-stadt,1472266,2973848.html

http://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/international-writers-project/pegah-ahmadi

http://www.shahrazadeu.org/en/category/writer/pegah-ahmadi?page=1

http://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk/mansurrajihpegahahmadiandbasimmardantalktoshenazkedar.aspx

http://www.shahrazadeu.org/en/content/pegah-ahmadi

http://www.shahrazadeu.org/en/content/pegah-ahmadi-analyzing-censorship-womens-poetry-iran

http://www.icorn.org/writersAE.php

http://www.ekd.de/aktuell/72758.html

http://publishingperspectives.com/2009/09/german-buch-news-praise-for-google-settlement-delay-frankfurt-as-a-refuge/

http://www.buchmesse.de/images/fbm/dokumente-ua-pdfs/2011/ueberblick_-_second_issue_26174.pdf

http://www.ibna.ir/vdciw3azut1azp2.ilct.html

http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/dichterin-im-sachsenhaeuser-exil,1472798,8637568.html

http://www.literaturhaus-frankfurt.de/01_programm/arch_jun_2010.html

Panels and Seminars:

US http://brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/sites/brown.edu.academics.literary-arts/files/uploads/IranianLitNov2011.pdf

Hay Festival - England http://www.hayfestival.com/p-3349-mansur-rajih-pegah-ahmadi-and-basim-mardan-talk-to-shenaz-kedar.aspx London: http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=176 Germany http://events.kodoom.com/en/frankfurt-germany/pegah-ahmadi-niloofar-beyzaie-and-parastou-forouhar-kunstler-fur-den-iran/53325/e/ Waltic symposium – Turkey http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=220 Stavanger - Norway http://www.shahrazadeu.org/en/content/writer-residence-pegah-ahmadi-visits-stavanger-katedralskole Passaporta Festival - Belgium http://www.beschrijf.be/index.php?q=beschrijf/fr/podium_archives/event/616 http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=266 Icorn launch in London http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=178 Germany – Haus am Dom http://www.amnesty-meinungsfreiheit.de/aktuell/termine.html Germany- Mousonturm http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/41099-zuflucht-in-frankfurt-fuer-autorin-pegah-ahmadi.htm?hilite=Ohm

Poetry Jury Member of Iran:

http://www.radiofarda.com/content/article/1134686.html

http://www.valselit.com/article.aspx?id=686

http://www.khorshidprize.ir/article.aspx?id=48

http://www.khorshidprize.ir/article.aspx?id=22

http://hsoltanm.blogfa.com/post-8690.aspx

http://mirasyar.persianblog.ir/post/1812