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Sascha Aurora Akhtar is an international writer and artist whose practice encompasses poetry, novels, translation, journalism as well as performance and video art.[1] She was born in Pakistan, trained in the USA and currently lives and works in England. Saschas own work has been widely translated (into Armenian, Portuguese, Galician, Russian, Dutch and Polish[2] and featured in anthologies. She regularly perfoms at literary festivals around the world.[3] She performed at Yoko Ono's curation at Meltdown (festival) in 2013 and Poetry Wales in 2021.
Sascha's work has been described as contemporary gothic, punk and anarchic[4][5]. In 2008 she was listed by the Guardian as one of the upcoming poets on the UK literary scene[6]. She was the judge for the Streetcar magazines prize for experimental writining in 2020 [7]. The collection of stories 'Of Necessity and Wanting', was shortlisted for the UBL Literary Award in 2021.[8]
Her first novel is being reissued by Prototype with another collection due in 2026[9]
Publishesd work
[edit]Translations
[edit]- Belles-Lettres: Writings of Hijab Imtiaz Ali
Poetry Collections
[edit]- The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju, (The Emma Press, 2019) ISBN 9781912915279
- 199 Japanese Names for Japanese Trees (Shearsman, 2016)
Prose
[edit]- The Grimoire of Grimalkin (Salt Publishing, 2007)
- Of Necessity & Wanting, 2020
Anthologies
[edit]- Cathecism: Poems for Pussy Riot (2012)
- Out of Everywhere (Reality Street, 2015)
- Women:Poetry:Migration (Theenk Books 2018)
Sources
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- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/24/poetry
- ^ https://www.chicagoreview.org/sascha-aurora-akhtar/
- ^ https://lucywritersplatform.com/author/sascha-akhtar/
- ^ https://www.matthewhaigh.net/sascha-aurora-akhtar
- ^ https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-grimoire-of-grimalkin/sascha-aurora-akhtar/9781844713097
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/24/poetry
- ^ https://www.streetcakemagazine.com/about.html
- ^ https://pentransmissions.com/2021/12/20/no-memories-except-memories-of-a-memory/
- ^ https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/prototype-to-resissue-sascha-aurora-akhtars-debut-poetry-collection-in-two-book-deal