Roja Chamankar
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Roja Chamankar (Persian: روجا چمنکار), born 20 May 1981[1] in Borazjan, Bushehr Province, Iran, in southern Iran, is a Persian poet.
She was born two years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution,[2] studied Literature and Cinema in Tehran, and her Master in Cinematoghraphie is in Strasbourg.[3][4] She participated in a number of international poetry festivals, including the Poetry Biennial Val-de-Marne in 2005[2] and the Voix vives de Méditerranée en Méditerranée festival in Sète[5] in 2013.[2]
Her poems have been published in various Iranian magazines and newspapers.[6] She has also directed a film and has presented children's television programmes in Iran.[2]
Published works
- You've Gone, Bring Me Some South
- Nine Months Stones
- Escape My Lips from the Roof
- Dying in a Mother Tongue[7]