About Choman Hardi
Choman Hardi is a Kurdish and Irakian poet and translator. Hardi fled Iraq along with her family in the late 1980s and was granted asylum in the UK in 1993. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the Queen's College, University of Oxford, her Masters of Arts (MA) at the University College London and PhD at the University of Kent. She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and two collections of English poems, Life for Us (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and Considering the Women (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2016. Her articles have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation. In 2023, she was awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.Browse all poems and texts published on Choman Hardi
