December 19, 2024
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Authors
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José Ángel Gutiérrez
José Angel Gutiérrez (b. 1944) is considered one of the Four Horsemen of the Chicano Movement and founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas–Arlington. The author or co-author of seventeen books, he was most recently honored with the 2018 National Hispanic Hero Award from the US Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago.
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (b. 1986, Caguas) is the author most recently of the novel Los días hábiles (2020) and the book of short stories Preciosos perdedores (2019). He has received the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña’s National Novel Prize in Puerto Rico (2012) as well as the Festival de la Palabra’s Premio Nuevas Voces (2015), a recognition of up-and-coming local writers. In 2017 he was selected by the Hay Festival as part of Bogotá39, a list of the best Latin American writers under the age of forty.
Sean Guynes-Vishniac
Sean Guynes-Vishniac (@guynesvishniac) is a PhD candidate in English at Michigan State University. He is editor of Punking Speculative Fiction (a special issue of Deletion, May 2018); co-editor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (forthcoming) and Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017); editor of The SFRA Review; and book reviews editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.
Photo by José Arturo Ballester Pannelidiv>Sandra Guzmán
A Caribbean-born, Afro Indigenous daughter of Boriké, Sandra Guzmán is an award-winning author, editor, documentary filmmaker, and anthologist whose work explores identity, land, memory, race, coloniality, spirituality, culture, and gender. She is the editor of the landmark anthology Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023), featuring the texts of 140 women from fifty nations who write in more than two dozen languages (see WLT, Nov. 2023, 68). She produced and was the interviewer for The Pieces I Am, the acclaimed documentary film about the art and life of her literary mentor, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Her essays have appeared in Audubon magazine and the anthologies So We Can Know, edited by Aracelis Girmay, and Some of My Best Friends, edited by Emily Bernard. Her work has appeared in CNN, NBC News, and El Diario / La Prensa, among others, and her documentary work has aired on PBS for American Masters, HBO, and Netflix. She won an Emmy for a program on the US Cuba embargo while working as a producer at Telemundo. She is presently associate editor at Studio Gannet.
Barbara Haas
Barbara Haas’s recent essays appear in The MacGuffin, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Terrain.org, and the Chariton Review. Her nonfiction is forthcoming from Isthmus, Lake Effect, and Delmarva Review.
Paavo Haavikko
Paavo Haavikko (1931-2008) was a Finnish poet and playwright. He published his first collection of poetry in 1951, at the age of twenty. After three more poetry collections, two three-act plays, and two novels, Haavikko's first English-translated piece was published in 1961. He is the laureate of the 1984 Neustadt Prize.
Hedy Habra
Hedy Habra (HedyHabra.com) is the author of two poetry collections, Tea in Heliopolis (2013), winner of the USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award, and Under Brushstrokes (2015), inspired by visual art. Recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she is also the author of a story collection, Flying Carpets (2013), winner of the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention.
Ken Hada
Ken Hada, professor and poet at East Central University, is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including Come before Winter (2023) and Contour Feathers (2021). His book Visions for the Night was released in April at the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival on the campus of ECU.
Saliha Haddad
Saliha Haddad is an Algerian writer and an editor at Botsotso and Hotazel Review magazine.
Will Hagle
Will Hagle is a Los Angeles–based writer of fiction, nonfiction, and sketch comedy. His work has appeared in Complex, Noisey, Passion of the Weiss, Vinyl Me, Please, and more. He is currently pursuing an MFA in International Writing and Literary Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and he co-hosts the monthly reading series Dead Rabbits LA. Follow him on Twitter @willydasquid.
Óscar Hahn / Courtesy of Alchetrondiv>Óscar Hahn
Óscar Hahn is one of Chile’s most important poets today and has been the nation’s poet laureate. For years he taught at the University of Iowa. He is known worldwide as a master of the sonnet form. His books include Poetic Sum (1965), Flower of the Enamored (1987), Profane Appearances (2001), and The Communicating Mirrors (2015), from which these two poems are derived.
Hussain Haidry
Hussain Haidry is a poet, screenwriter, and lyricist. He was head of finance at a healthcare company in Kolkata until he left his job and moved to Mumbai to become a full-time writer. He started his career by performing at spoken-word poetry forums in Mumbai such as Kommune, then went on to write lyrics for films like Gurgaon, Qarib Qarib Single, and Mukkabaaz and web series like Chacha Vidhaayak Hai Humaare, Yeh Meri Family, and Tripling. As a screenwriter, he has co-written the Amazon web series Laakhon Mein Ek (season two) and is presently working on the dialogues of the film Takht.
Photo by Lioz Issacdiv>Gili Haimovich
Gili Haimovich is an internationally published poet and translator who writes in both Hebrew and English. She has six volumes of poetry in Hebrew and a collection of poetry in English, Living on a Blank Page. Her work is featured in numerous journals and translated into several languages.
Golan Haji
Golan Haji is a Syrian Kurdish poet and translator who now lives in Paris. His latest poetry collection, A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know, was published by A Midsummer Night’s Press in 2017. His most recent translation into Arabic is Alberto Manguel’s Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2017)
Photo by Umar Timoldiv>Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a poet and fiction writer from Israel. Her books include the poetry volume Mahar Na’avod (We’ll work tomorrow) (2014), which received the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature, the graphic novel baMayim (In the water) (2016), and the collection of novellas Hevra (Company) (2018). She is the recipient of the 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers and a Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa. Hakimi holds a degree in mechanical engineering.
Anna Halas
Anna Halas is a playwright, theater translator, and researcher at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine. Her interests are in the fields of theater translation, contemporary Ukrainian drama, ideology, and culture. Her articles also explore different interpretations of identity in literary texts.
Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is a Jordanian Filipina American writer and editor based in London. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, her books include: Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline (2014); Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations (2009); The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design (2008); Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran (2007); Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images (2004); Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance (2002); and Mother of All Pigs, her first novel.
Eduardo Halfon
Neustadt Prize nominee Eduardo Halfon is the author of fifteen books of fiction published in Spanish. Mourning (2018) received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award (US), the International Latino Book Award (US), the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France), and the Premio de las Librerías de Navarra (Spain). In 2018 he was awarded the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, his country’s highest literary honor. His newest book in English, Canción, is forthcoming in September from Bellevue Literary Press. Photo by Ferrante Ferranti
Tom Halford
Tom Halford is a scholar and writer who has taught at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, Chonnam National University in South Korea, and at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. His chapbook Mill Ratis forthcoming from Frog Hollow Press in 2021. He studies crime fiction and representations of writers in Canadian novels.
Photo by Shevaun Williamsdiv>Heather Hall
Heather Hall is the owner of Green Feather Books in Norman, Oklahoma, just a few blocks north of World Literature Today.
Björn Halldórsson
Björn Halldórsson is the senior editor of The Bridge Reviews, a web platform dedicated to English-language reviews of Icelandic literature. His first book, Smáglæpir (Misdemeanors), won the 2016 Icelandic Literature Centre’s Grassroots Grant. His second book, Stol (Route 1), was published in February 2021. He lives in Reykjavík.
Abdelfattah Ben Hammouda
Abdelfattah Ben Hammouda is a Tunisian poet who has published ten books of poetry. Many of his poems have been published in journals and periodicals in Arabic as well as in French and Spanish translations. He lives in Tunis, where he works as a newspaper editor and a consultant for Mayara Editions poetry series.
Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France, and the Arab world. Described by Yusef Kumunyakaa “as one of the most important voices of her generation,” her most recent books include the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award.
Matt A. Hanson
Matt A. Hanson is a journalist and editor in Istanbul. He reviews contemporary Turkish novels for World Literature Today and has written for Artforum, Artnet News, ARTnews, ArtAsiaPacific, Tablet, The Millions, Words Without Borders, and many other outlets on art, literature, history, and politics.
Satomi Hara
Satomi Hara is a Japanese writer from Tokyo. In 2014 she won an honorable mention in the Mita Bungaku Prize for New Writers. In 2016 she received the Noboru Tsujihara Award in the Bungaku Kingyo Prize for New Writers. She has authored the short-story collection Sato-kun, daisuki (2018).
Muhammad Harbi
Muhammad Harbi is an Egyptian poet and journalist. He is the senior editor of the cultural and literary sections of Al-Ahram newspaper, a leading Arab daily based in Cairo. Born in a small village in the northern part of the Nile delta in 1961, Harbi moved to Cairo to study journalism and media. He holds a degree in mass communication from Cairo University. Even though he started composing poetry in high school, Harbi emerged as a major published poet later in life, publishing his first collection of poetry at the age of fifty. His poetry has repeatedly been lauded for its deep and reflective connection to the natural world and geo-aesthetic sensibility. Harbi’s published collections include three Arabic books of poetry, “By the Sand as it Seduces,” “Seventeen Years to Catch a Cloud,” and “Upon a Shadow I Trod,” the last of which is the source for these translations. Harbi’s forthcoming work includes three more books of poetry, “Alone, I Set Off with My Book,” “A Diary of a Retired Demon,” and “A Balcony for Seduction.” In addition, Harbi has written and produced numerous documentaries in collaboration with his wife, Maha Shahbah, a journalist and filmmaker.
