Rosa Jamali (Persian: رزا جمالی; born 1977 in Tabriz) is an Iranian poet, translator, literary critic, and playwright.

Rosa Jamali
Born(1977-11-19)November 19, 1977
Tabriz, Iran
OccupationPoet
NationalityIranian
Alma materTehran University of Art, University of Tehran

Education and career

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She studied Dramatic Literature at the Tehran University of Art and later received an MA degree in English literature from Tehran University.[1]

Her debut collection of poems, This Dead Body is Not an Apple, It Is Either a Cucumber or a Pear, was published in 1997 and announced a major new voice in Iranian poetry. The book opened Persian poetry to new creative possibilities.[2]

Making Coffee To Run a Crime Story focuses on misogyny and crime against women.

She has been praised in her recent collections for combining present-day settings with Persian mysticism.[3][1]

Scholars say that she has perceived a new female style and rhetoric and influenced a generation of female Persian poetry.[4] She is also a prolific translator and has translated English poetry into Persian.

Works

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Poetry

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  • This Dead Body Is Not An Apple, It's Either A Cucumber Or A Pear (1997)
  • Making A Face (1998)
  • Making Coffee To Run A Crime Story (2002)
  • The Hourglass is Fast Asleep (2011)
  • Highways Blocked (2014)
  • Here Gravity is Less (2019)

Plays

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  • The Shadow (2007)

Translations

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Essays

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  • Revelations in the Wind; theory and analysis (Essays on the Poetics of Persian Poetry)

Footnotes

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The Dark Room, Essays on Rosa Jamali's Poetry, edited by Reza Shalbafan

  1. ^ Taos Poetry Journal
  2. ^ Poetry International
  3. ^ British Council
  4. ^ Taos Poetry Journal

References

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