Acclaimed writer, Choman Hardi will be returning to Shetland in March 2010, to take up a month long Creative Writing Residency. Choman Hardi is a poet, translator and painter, born in Iraqi Kurdistan. She arrived in the UK in 1993, having twice had to flee to Iran with her family, in 1975 and in 1988 (during Saddam’s Anfal Campaign against the Kurds.) She has studied philosophy and psychology at Oxford University and at the University College of London, completed a doctorate at Kent University and post-doctorate research at the University of Uppsala.
Dr Hardi has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and her first volume of poetry written in English, Life For Us was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2006. She has wide experience of working as a creative writing tutor which includes running poetry workshops for Exiled Writers Ink, Apples and Snakes, New Writing Partnerships, Spread the Word, Accademi, The South Bank, The Arvon Foundation and the British Council. In 2007 she facilitated a series of poetry workshops for the young people in Kurdistan through the Youth Culture Houses in different towns and cities. She has also been Poet-in-Residence at Moniack Mhor Writers Centre.
(For more information, please visit their website. Click HERE.)
Dr Hardi has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and her first volume of poetry written in English, Life For Us was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2006. She has wide experience of working as a creative writing tutor which includes running poetry workshops for Exiled Writers Ink, Apples and Snakes, New Writing Partnerships, Spread the Word, Accademi, The South Bank, The Arvon Foundation and the British Council. In 2007 she facilitated a series of poetry workshops for the young people in Kurdistan through the Youth Culture Houses in different towns and cities. She has also been Poet-in-Residence at Moniack Mhor Writers Centre.
(For more information, please visit their website. Click HERE.)
