Maryam Ala Amjadi
Maryam Ala Amjadi - (born 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian poet, essayist and translator who has spent the impressionable years of her childhood in India. She also has an M.A. in English Literature from University of Pune. Ala Amjadi who writes primarily in English was the winner of the Silver Medal in the 14th National Persian Literature Olympiad (2001) and was awarded Honorary Fellowship in Creative Writing by the International Writers Program (IWP) at University of Iowa, U.S.A. (2008).
Maryam Ala Amjadi (born 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian poet, essayist and translator who has spent the impressionable years of her childhood in India. She also has an M.A. in English Literature from University of Pune. Ala Amjadi who writes primarily in English was the winner of the Silver Medal in the 14th National Persian Literature Olympiad (2001) and was awarded Honorary Fellowship in Creative Writing by the International Writers Program (IWP) at University of Iowa, U.S.A. (Fall 2008). She has also won the Second Prize (on Gender issues in Translation) in the A.K. Ramanujan National Paper Reading Competition, University of Baroda, India (January 2009) and is also the translator of the American poet, Raymond Carver's poetry in a collection entitled, Fear of Arriving Early (Aknoon Publications, Tehran 2009). A Member of the Young Scholars Club in Tehran and World Poets Society (W.P.S), she has also previously worked as a Persian-English News Interpreter at the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA). She is the author of Me, I, Myself (2003) and Gypsy Bullets (2010) which was published in India. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Italian and Romanian.
She has also won the Second Prize (on Gender issues in Translation) in the A.K. Ramanujan National Paper Reading Competition, University of Baroda, India (January 2009) and is also the translator of the American poet, Raymond Carver's poetry in a collection entitled, Fear of Arriving Early (Aknoon Publications, Tehran 2009). A Member of the Young Scholars Club in Tehran and World Poets Society (W.P.S), she has also previously worked as a Persian-English News Interpreter at the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA). She is the author of Me, I, Myself (2003) and Gypsy Bullets (2010) which was published in India. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Italian and Romanian.