Mana Aghaee

Mana Aghaee (Persian: مانا آقایی ) is a Persian poet and translator.

Biography

Mana Aghaee was born in Bushehr, Iran, and lives in Stockholm, Sweden since 1987. She is the daughter of the Iranian scholar and poet Shirzad Aghaee. She has a M.A. degree in Iranian languages from Uppsala University, Sweden, and is a specialist in modern Persian literature.

Published works

Poetry

• Dar imtidad-i parvaz, Vällingby (Sweden), 1991.
• Marg agar labha-yi tura dasht, Bushehr (Iran), 2003.
• Man 'Isa ibn-i khudam, Stockholm (Sweden), 2007.

Prose

• Lexikon över iranska författare i Sverige (A Bibliography of Iranian Writers in Sweden), Uppsala, 2002. (Swedish)
• Ketabshenasi-ye she'r-e zanan-e iran (A Bibliography of Iranian Women Poets), Stockholm (Sweden), 2007. (Persian)

Articles

• Den persiska litteraturen i Sverige (Persian Literature in Sweden), Litteraturens gränsland. Invandrar- och minoritetslitteratur i nordiskt perspektiv, ed. S. Gröndahl, Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 2002. (Swedish)
• Mosaikens turkosa eko: persisk modern poesi (Persian Poetry in Translation), Stockholm, 2002. (Swedish)
• More than 30 translations of Swedish, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean poetry into Persian.

Anthologies

Her poems have also been translated into five languages, among them, English, Swedish, Turkish, Arabic and German. Aghaee's work can be found in the following anthologies:

• Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians around the World, edited by Niloufar Talebi, (North Atlantic Books, 2008).
• The Poetry of Iranian Women, a contemporary anthology edited by Sheema Kalbasi, (Reelcontent Publishing, 2008).
• Rattapallax nr 13- Endangered Languages & Poetry edited by Catherine Feltcher, New York, (Rattapallax Press, 2006).
• Private nr 42 - International Review of Photographs and Texts, (Oriano Sportelli Publisher, Autumn 2008).

See also

Poetry portal

• List of Iranian women

References

• Other Voices Poetry - Mana Aghaee's biography
• Voices in Exile - Mana Aghaee's poetry

External links

• Zemzemehaye dokhtare Sapho Whispers of Sapho´s Daughter - Mana Aghaee Website (Persian)

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