#2016 TOR HOUSE PRIZE FOR POETRY OFFLINE#

He writes poems, literary criticism, and papers on literary history. He finished primary and secondary school in Smederevo, and the studies of Yugoslav Literatures and Serbo-Croatian Language in Belgrade. Goran Djordjevic was born at Kolari near Smederevo on May 16, 1952. Her works have been translated into more than ten languages and her poems can be found in various anthologies worldwide. In 2000 she was the recipient of the Kostas and Eleni Ourani Award (literary distinction by the Academy of Athens). and Canadian universities (Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, State University of N.Y., Princeton, Columbia, to name but a few). She has also lectured and read poems at U.S. In 1985 she won 2nd Greek National Poetry Award. In 1962 she won the Prix Hensch, Geneva’s 1st Prize for Poetry.

Additionally, approximately 20 of her poetry collections have been circulated. Subsequent to that, she has penned articles and essays on Greek poetry as well as translated poems that have been published in numerous magazines in Greece and abroad.

Her first published work, in 1956, appeared in the literary magazine “Kainourgia Epochi” (New Era). She holds a degree from the School of Translators and Interpreters (English, French, Russian). She completed university studies in Athens (Greece), Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerland).

He is the co-editor of the Turkish domain in Poetry International (One of the most emblematic lyric voices of post-war poetry, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens in 1939. He is member of the editorial board of Macedonian based international literary magazine Blesok. He is the editor of the Turkish literature magazine Çevrimdışı İstanbul (Offline İstanbul). He is board member of Nilüfer International Poetry Festival, Crete International Poetry Festival and Kritya International Poetry Movement.

#2016 TOR HOUSE PRIZE FOR POETRY OFFLINE#

He is the curator and co-director of Word Express ( He is the co-director of the Offline Istanbul and Gaziantep Mosaic of Metaphors International Poetry Festivals. In the Lettres Capitales Project of European Capital of Culture Marseille 2012, his book in hand writing in French and Turkish has been prepared and published as a single exhibition copy. His selected poetry is published in Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania. His poems are translated into 30 languages, published in magazines and anthologies. He is the member of Cunda International Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature. He has participated and/or organized poetry translation workshops and festivals in many countries. He has translated selected poetry books of Wallace Stevens, Paul Auster, Ursula Le Guin and many other poets into Turkish. Özger Best Debut Prize in 2006 and his latest book, Giderken Öpmeseydin Keşke (I Wish You didn’t Kiss Before You Go) is awarded with Sabahattin Kudret Aksal Literary Prize in 2019. His first book, Her Kitabın El Kitabı (Handbook of Every Book) is awarded with Arkadaş Z. He was born in Istanbul, 1971 and lives there. He has lived his whole life in his native city, Kunming. A regular guest at major poetry festivals, Yu Jian has held lectures and readings at leading universities and literary venues worldwide. Among his documentaries are Hometown (2009) and Jade Green Station (in collaboration with anthropologist Zhu Xiaoyang, 2003), both of which constitute a cinematic expression that allows Yu Jian to extend his poetic, humanistic vision to his ongoing ecological, socio-political, and cultural concerns about life in Yunnan. Yu Jian’s writings have been translated into fourteen languages, including English as well as major European and Asian languages. His numerous publications, which span more than three decades and various literary genres, include the landmark five-volume Collected Yu Jian (Yunnan People’s Publishing, 2004), the four-volume Selected Essays of Yu Jian (Shaanxi Normal University Press, 2010), and more recently Who Is He: Poems 2007-2011 (Chongqing University Press, 2013). Arguably the most prolific Chinese language poet of our time, he is widely recognized as one of the foremost poets of his generation. Yu Jian (1954- ) was born and raised in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Contemporary Chinese poet, essayist, literary critic, novelist, editor, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and university professor.

2016 tor house prize for poetry