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| birth_place = [[Tabriz]], Iran
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| occupation = Poet
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| nationality = Iranian
| nationality = [[Iran|Iranian]]
| alma_mater = [[Tehran University of Art]], [[University of Tehran]]
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'''Rosa Jamali''' ({{lang-fa|رزا جمالی}}; born 1977 in [[Tabriz]]), is an Iranian [[poet]], [[translator]], [[literary critic]] and [[playwright]].
'''Rosa Jamali''' ({{langx|fa|رزا جمالی}}; born 1977 in [[Tabriz]]) is an Iranian [[poet]], [[translator]], [[literary critic]], and [[playwright]].


== Education and career ==
== 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]].
She studied Dramatic Literature at the [[Tehran University of Art]] and later received an MA degree in English literature from [[Tehran University]].<ref>Taos Poetry Journal</ref>


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.<ref>Poetry International</ref>
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.<ref>Poetry International</ref>


"Making Coffee To Run a Crime Story" focuses on misogyny and crimes against women.
''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.<ref>British Council</ref>{{better|reason=not specific enough|date=January 2023}}
She has been praised in her recent collections for combining present-day settings with Persian mysticism.<ref>British Council</ref>[https://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/search/briefListSearch.do?command=FULL_VIEW&id=8947009&pageStatus=0&sortKeyValue1=sortkey_title&sortKeyValue2=sortkey_author]


Scholars say that she has perceived a new female style and rhetoric.<ref>Persian Literature on Britannica</ref>
Scholars say that she has perceived a new female style and rhetoric and influenced a generation of female Persian poetry.<ref>Taos Poetry Journal</ref>
She is also a prolific translator and has translated English poetry into Persian.
She is also a prolific translator and has translated English poetry into Persian.


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===Poetry===
===Poetry===
*This Dead Body Is Not An Apple, It's Either A Cucumber Or A Pear, (1997)
*''This Dead Body Is Not An Apple, It's Either A Cucumber Or A Pear'' (1997)
*Making A Face, (1998)
*''Making A Face'' (1998)
*Making Coffee To Run A Crime Story, (2002)
*''Making Coffee To Run A Crime Story'' (2002)
*The Hourglass is Fast Asleep,(2011)
*''The Hourglass is Fast Asleep'' (2011)
*Highways Blocked, (2014)
*''Highways Blocked'' (2014)
*Here Gravity is Less(2019)
*''Here Gravity is Less'' (2019)


===Plays===
===Plays===
*The Shadow (2007)
*''The Shadow'' (2007)


===Translations===
===Translations===
*Sailing to Byzantium, Selected poems of [[William Butler Yeats]]
*''Sailing to Byzantium, Selected poems of [[William Butler Yeats]]''
*Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (a selection), [[William Shakespeare]]
*''Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (a selection)'', [[William Shakespeare]]
*Edge, An anthology of English Poetry in Persian ([[Ted Hughes]], [[Ezra Pound]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Hilda Doolittle]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Adrienne Rich]], [[Stevie Smith]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[T.S. Eliot]], [[Joseph Brodsky]], [[Rupert Brooke]], [[Edith Sitwell]], [[Robert Frost]], [[Louise Gluck]], [[Emma Lazarus]], [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], [[Sudeep Sen]], [[Roger McGough]], [[Walt Whitman]] and many others...)
*''Edge, An anthology of English Poetry in Persian'' ([[Ted Hughes]], [[Ezra Pound]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[H.D.]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Adrienne Rich]], [[Stevie Smith]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[T.S. Eliot]], [[Joseph Brodsky]], [[Rupert Brooke]], [[Edith Sitwell]], [[Robert Frost]], [[Louise Gluck]], [[Emma Lazarus]], [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], [[Sudeep Sen]], [[Roger McGough]], [[Walt Whitman]] and many others...)
*Tulips,Ten Female Poets in English ([[Natasha Trethewey]], [[Solmaz Sharif]], [[Louise Gluck]], [[Emma Lazarus]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Hilda Doolittle]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Adrienne Rich]], [[Stevie Smith]], [[Edith Sitwell]])
*''Tulips, Ten Female Poets in English'' ([[Natasha Trethewey]], [[Solmaz Sharif]], [[Louise Gluck]], [[Emma Lazarus]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[H.D.]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Adrienne Rich]], [[Stevie Smith]], [[Edith Sitwell]])
*The Wild Iris, Selected Poems of [[Louise Gluck]]
*''The Wild Iris, Selected Poems of [[Louise Gluck]]''
*A Certain Lady, Selected Short stories and Poems, [[Dorothy Parker]]
*''A Certain Lady, Selected Short stories and Poems'', [[Dorothy Parker]]
*Sand and Time, Selected Poems of [[Amir Or]]
*''Words, Selected Poems'', [[Sylvia Plath]]
*The House of The Edrisis, a novel by [[Ghazaleh Alizadeh]]
*''The Waste Land, Selected Poems'', [[T.S. Eliot]]
*''The Fir Tree, [[Hans Christian Andersen]]''
*''Sand and Time, Selected Poems of [[Amir Or]]''
*''The House of The Edrisis'', a novel by [[Ghazaleh Alizadeh]]


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


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
[https://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/search/briefListSearch.do?command=FULL_VIEW&id=8947009&pageStatus=0&sortKeyValue1=sortkey_title&sortKeyValue2=sortkey_author The Dark Room, Essays on Rosa Jamali's Poetry, edited by Reza Shalbafan]<references/>
<references/>


==References==
==References==
*[http://www.bl.uk/events/iran-in-writing-past-and-present Iran in Writing]
*[http://www.bl.uk/events/iran-in-writing-past-and-present Iran in Writing]
*[https://thebombayreview.com/2021/03/20/iranian-edition-vol-ii-poetry-by-rosa-jamali-issue-40-2021/ Bombay Review; Iranian Edition]
*[https://thebombayreview.com/2021/03/20/iranian-edition-vol-ii-poetry-by-rosa-jamali-issue-40-2021/ Bombay Review; Iranian Edition]
*[https://www.taosjournalofpoetry.com/author/rosa-jamali Rosa Jamali on Taos Journal of Poetry]
*[https://thepunchmagazine.com/author/rosa-jamali The Clock Cell and Other Poems]
*[https://thepunchmagazine.com/author/rosa-jamali The Clock Cell and Other Poems]
*[https://eurolitkrant.com/OneAuthor.aspx?Id=71 My Promised Meridian]
*[https://eurolitkrant.com/OneAuthor.aspx?Id=71 My Promised Meridian]
*[http://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/site/poet/item/18522/13934/Rosa-Jamali/ Poetry International]
*[http://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/site/poet/item/18522/13934/Rosa-Jamali/ Poetry International]
*[https://www.fekt.org/rosa-jamali/ International Poetry Festival of Kosovo]
*[https://www.fekt.org/rosa-jamali/ International Poetry Festival of Kosovo]
*[http://www.taosjournalofpoetry.com/15622/ The Street Before You Leave Tehran]
*[https://poetscorner.blog/2022/11/19/the-street-before-you-leave-tehran/ The Street Before You Leave Tehran]
*The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, translated by Dick Davis, Published by Penguin Classics
*[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634968/the-mirror-of-my-heart-by-translated-with-an-introduction-and-notes-by-dick-davis/ The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, translated by Dick Davis, Published by Penguin Classics]


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[[Category:Iranian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Iranian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Iranian women poets]]
[[Category:Iranian women poets]]
[[Category:Women dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Iranian women dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:21st-century Iranian women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century Iranian women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century Iranian poets]]
[[Category:21st-century Iranian poets]]

Latest revision as of 16:50, 17 November 2024

Rosa Jamali
Born(1977-11-19)November 19, 1977
Tabriz, Iran
OccupationPoet
NationalityIranian
Alma materTehran University of Art, University of Tehran

Rosa Jamali (Persian: رزا جمالی; born 1977 in Tabriz) is an Iranian poet, translator, literary critic, and playwright.

Education and career

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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][1]

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

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Poetry

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  • 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

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  • The Shadow (2007)

Translations

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Essays

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

Footnotes

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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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