Do 01 Jun 2023

Fatemeh Shams wins Chapbook Competition by Poetry International

We are delighted to announce that the translation of Fatemeh Shams’ (University of Pennsylvania / EUME Fellow 2021-23) poetry collection Berlin has won the Chapbook Competition by Poetry International. Fatemeh’s poems have been translated from Persian into English by Armen Davoudian. Berlin will be pusblished soon in the 29th Issue of Poetry International. The collection consists of poems that Fatemeh wrote during her research stay in Berlin in 2021 and 2022.

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Fatemeh Shams is Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature at University of Pennsylvania. Her area of expertise includes literary production under authoritarian states, the social history of modern Persian literature, ideology and literary production. She is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning poet with three poetry collections. Her third collection, When They Broke Down the Door, won the Latifeh Yarshater annual book award in 2017. Her first monograph, A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-Option Under the Islamic Republic has been published by Oxford University Press. In the academic years 2021-2023, she is a EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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