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Aarethun, Venke (Norway)

Venke Aarethun has worked as a health and social worker in Palestine for more than a decade. At WORDS she represents the Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival – presenting Al Kamandjati (The Violinist); an important and touching performance in which a childhood in Palestine is described through music, words and photos/videos.
The performance will be in Oslo 12 October.

www.ultima.no

al-Kubaisi, Walid (Iraq/Norway)

Walid al-Kubaisi was born in Baghdad, Iraq and came to Norway in 1986. Other publications: Min tro, din myte (My faith, your myth), Aventura 1996, Sinbads verden (Sinbad’s world), Pantagruel, 1997, Gleden er ikke mitt yrke (Happiness is not my profession) - poetry, Pantagruel, 1997, Halvmånens hemmeligheter (The half-moon’s secrets), Pantagruel, 1998. He has also published several articles and essays in newspapers and magazines, and he works with Norwegian-Arabic dialogue for the association Assununu.

Authors in exile / Azad Rostami (Iran/Kurdistan/Norway)

Azad Rostami

Azad Rostami is a Kurdish poet and writer of articles, resides on Nesodden (Norway), and was born in 1971 in Marivan in Iranian Kurdistan. He is the director of The Iranian-Kurdish Authors’ Association. As an author, he has published his work in periodicals in Iran and in Northern Iraq, and he has also published two books: A carriage of rain (Iran, 1990), and Niosha, death’s ambassador (Northern Iraq, 1992).

The authors who are cooperating with Rostami in WORDS are:
Laila Simaei, Ayaz Khonsyawashan, Hossein Haideri, Syaroj and Hashmatollah Shafieian.

Bandehy, Lily (Norway)

Lily Bandehy

Lily Bandehy was born in Iran in 1949 and took refuge in Norway in 1988. Her academic professional background includes degrees in primary school teaching (from Iran) and in nursing, with further education in psychiatry (from Oslo University College (Høgskolen i Oslo)). The author has been quite active as a lecturer in regards to the situation for women in Iran, as well as on the many faces of Islam, and on being an immigrant in Norway.

Brahmachari, Nirmal (India/Norway)

Nirmal Brahmachari

Nirmal Brahmachari was born in 1944 in Calcutta.
He became active in the revolutionary student movement when he was a student.
He published his first book in 1967. Immediately he became a popular poet. He was also editor of several magazines and newspapers in India. He has been publishing poems, short stories and novels since then, in which the struggle against oppression and the love to the people stand as main issues.
He came to Norway in 1974. “Sparks in the Snow” was his first published book in Norway.
Later he has published “Poems against War” and recently the book “The Strangers”, short stories against discrimination and racial discrimination.

Brahmachari, Shanti (Norway)

Norsk Skuespillersenter / Norwegian Actor Centre
Shanti has long international experience with performing arts as instructor and producer. She has worked with The Royal National Theatre and The Tricycle Theatre in London and Black Box Theatre in Oslo. She worked as the professional committee for children and youth in Norway Arts Council. She is in the jury of Den Kulturelle Skolesekken (artistic school program), the cultural award of Telenor and is a board member of Riksteatret.

Choudhuri, Pradip (India)

Pradip Choudhuri

Pradip Choudhuri (born 1943) is a true man of letters: poet, essayist, translator, editor, publisher.
In 1964, a group of Bengal poets attained notoriety when they were arrested and tried for obscenity. This self-titled "Hungry Generation" included among its membership the young Pradip Choudhuri, who decided to dedicate his life to the written word.
Pradip's many books include My Rapid Activities (1964), Skin Disease (1965), Poetry-Religion (1970), 64 Ghosts's Ferry (1971), and The Black Hole: Selected Poems 1964-1989 (1990). He has edited several poetry journals since 1975 - most recently, the long-running ppHOO. His poetry has appeared in journals and reviews in many nations - making him a veritable citizen of the world.
His literary achievements reveal the full breadth of his genius.

Christensen, Elly (Denmark/Norway)

Elly Elisabeth Christensen

Visual artist and cultural worker

Download presentation as PDF (norwegian)

www.ellyc.com

Download Elly Christensen´s report from the seminar.

Croce, Fabio (Italy)

Fabio Croce

Fabio Croce was born in Rome in 1960. He is an independent publisher, writer and activist for the GLBT civil rights movement. After working for 20 years in the bookshop business, he started the Edizioni Libreria Croce in 1997. Since then he published more than 300 books. Most of them focused on the GLBT matters. He wrote for different publishers 11 books, including several novels (“Uomini oltre”, “Amerai l’uomo”, “Perché no?”) and an inquiry on the murder of the Swiss guards, Estermann and Tornay, which occured in the Vatican city on the 4th May 2008 (“Delitto in Vaticano”).
His publishing house has just released two important books: “Il libro nero del Vaticano” (“The black book of the Vatican”) by Tony Braschi and the Italian translation of Albert Russo’s “Shalom Tower Syndrome”.

Finess, Mari (Norway)

Mari Finess

Employed in Arts Council Norway since 1980, Mari Finess first worked with sami cultural issues and literature.

From 1993 she is head of the literary section of the council.

Flatabø, Avanti (Norway)

Visual artist, jouralist, writer, editor.
Various art exhibitions since 1981. Has written a large number of articles and cronicles and edited a female magazine in Mumbai. Since 1994 editor of Ragtime, an English cultural magazine with Norwegian attachment.

Guendouz, Nadir (Norway)

Nordic Black Express

Guzha, Daves / Rooftop Promotions (Zimbabwe)

From Super Patriots and Morons

Rooftop Promotions – started and headed by Daves Guzha – is a rear and important theatre company and platform for political and social debate in Zimbabwe. Their writing, directing, performing and arts management is stimulated largely by the day-to-day societal circumstances and how civil society responds to issues of rights nature...political rights, social rights, civil rights! Thus, they have formulated and are implementing our arts development thrust giving it relevance and keeping always the people in mind and proffering practical solutions to problems.

Super Patriots and Morons is a political satire that has already been in trouble with the Zimbabwe government. Banned for hitting too close to the bone, the play has defied the odds resurfacing regionally and overseas much to the chagrin of the government.

(performance 18 September 20.00 at Malersalen, the National Theatre)

Iralu, Easterine (India/Norway)

Easterine Kire Iralu

Guest writer, Tromsø, Norway

Easterine Kire Iralu, born in Kohima, Nagaland, in North-east India, has been guest writer in Tromsø from 2005-2007. She has a Phd in English literature from Pune University, India.

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Jensen, Kjell Olaf (Norway)

(Norwegian PEN / ICORN)
Born 1946. Master of Arts in literary science from the University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo). Translator and literary critic. Director of Norwegian PEN (1997-2007) and one of the initiators to the founding of ICORN, the international network of cities of refuge for persecuted writers, with nine member cities in Norway.

Today: Responsible for the Cities of Refuge in Norw)egian PEN, and member of ICORN’s international advisory group.

Khairhoum, Zakia og Steimler, Lena (Morocco/Norway)

Zakia Khairhoum

Zakia Khairhoum was born in Agadir, Morocco in 1965 and came to Norway in 1990. Other publications: children’s book with Arabian fairy-tales in Arabic. Participant in Kulturbro Publishing Company’s project “Fortell, fortell! Fabler fra Sør” (”Tell me, please tell me! Fables from the South”) at Skrivebua/ Netd@ys in connection with the multicultural arrangement “Du store verden!” and Primary School Week 1998.

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Kittelsen, Erling (Norway)

Erling Kittelsen

A poet, dramatist and author of literary adaptations, Erling had his debut in 1970 and he holds a Master of Arts degree in the science of religious phenomena.

His works have been presented on stage at the National Theatre (Nationaltheatret). In 1990 he received the Aschehoug Prize and in 2002 he received the Dobloug Prize from the Swedish Academy. He has published poetry, poetic dialogues, fables (also for children), two novels, plays and literary adaptations.

In June of 2007 he was awarded Eckbo’s Cultural Prize at the Norwegian Literature Festival in Lillehammer.

Kumar, Santosh (India)

Santosh Kumar

Santosh Kumar (b. 1946) is a poet, short-story writer and an editor from UP India; DPhil in English; Editor of Taj Mahal Review and Harvests of New Millennium Journals; several awards; member of World Poets Society (W.P.S.); member of World Haiku Association, Japan; published poetry in Indian Verse by Young Poets (1980), World Poetry (1995 & 1996), The Fabric of A Vision (2001), The Still Horizon (2002), The Golden Wings (2002), Voyages (2003), Symphonies (2003), New Pegasus (2004), Explorers (2004), Dwan (USA), Promise (Purple Rose Publications, USA), Taj Mahal Review (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008). He has also edited sixteen World Poetry Anthologies, and four books of World’s Great Short Stories. He is also the author of a collection of poems entitled Helicon (Cyberwit, India, ISBN 81-901366-8-2), Haiku collection New Utopia (Rochak Publishing, India ISBN 978-81-903812-0-8), and Critical Essays in collaboration with Adam Donaldson Powell (Cyberwit, India, 978-81-8253-110-9).

Kvam, Hannah Wozene (Norway)

Hannah Wozene Kvam

Hannah Wozene Kvam is a performance artist and writer, slam poet and a regular member of the theater group Queendom. She has longtime experience from NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) TV and radio, P4, TVNOslo – as program hostess, documentation expert and reporter.

She is currently engaged in the project "Barns fortellinger" (”Children’s stories”), which is a cooperative effort together with the University College in Telemark and Redd Barna (Save the Children).

Mardan, Basim

Guest writer in Skien, Norway

Born in Mosul/Iraq in April 1976.

Born to a Shiite father and a Sunni mother, which is a fact that played a major role in his life after the starting of sectarian violence in Iraq later on.

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