The Distance of a Shout

Kishwar Naheed
Edited by Asif Farrukhi

A prominent voice in our contemporary literary scene, Kishwar Naheed has been widely read, and her work translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, French, Russian, German, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Italian, and Spanish. This selection is both comprehensive and representative of her varied style. The poems included in it have been published along with their English translations. The translations have been contributed by established and well-known poets seeking to open the work of a leading feminist Urdu poet to a readership accustomed to English.

Author Description
Kishwar Naheed is one of the best-known feminist poets of Pakistan. Her poetry has been translated into eleven different languages.

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