Rosa Jamali

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

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]

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

Poetry
  • 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
  • The Shadow (2007)

Translations

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

Footnotes

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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