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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
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Iranian
Alma mater	Tehran University of Art, University of Tehran

Education and career

She studied drama at the Tehran University of Art; later she received an MA degree in English literature from Tehran University.

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. That same year her second collection of poems "Making a Face" was published and well-received by critics. This collection, with its stream-of-consciousness narrative poems, merged different types of discourses and registers – sometimes archaic, sometimes colloquial, written, formal, informal, journalistic, scientific. Jamali adapted a kind of music from classical Persian poetry and imbued it with the natural cadences of speech, juxtaposing long and short sentences, infusing the whole with her bitter and distinctive sense of humour.[1] Her third collection "Making Coffee To Run a Crime Story" was partly inspired by Sadegh Hedayat’s Blind Owl. Her most recent books are "The Hourglass is Fast Asleep" and "Highways Blocked", which have been mentioned for combining present-day setting with the myths and themes of Persian mystics.[2] According to a Persian poetry critic, she has perceived new landscapes in a kind of imagery and as Britannica says she has experimented new styles of expression in Persian poetry.[3] She has widely 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

• Sailing to Byzantium, Selected poems of William Butler Yeats
• 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...)
• 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)
• The Wild Iris, Selected Poems of Louise Gluck
• A Certain Lady, Selected Short stories and Poems, Dorothy Parker
• Sand and Time, Selected Poems of Amir Or
• The House of The Edrisis, a novel by Ghazaleh Alizadeh

Essays

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

Footnotes

References

• Iran in Writing
• Bombay Review; Iranian Edition
• The Clock Cell and Other Poems
• My Promised Meridian
• Poetry International
• International Poetry Festival of Kosovo
• 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

На других языках

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- [en] Rosa Jamali

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[ru] Джамали, Роза

Роза Джамали (перс. رزا جمالی‎; род. 19 ноября 1977, Тебриз, Восточный Азербайджан, Иран) — иранская поэтесса, сценарист, переводчик и литературный критик.

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