ICORN Writers: U - V - W - X - Y- Z

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Prudence Uriri

Guest writer, Lillehammer City of Refuge 2008 - 2010

Prudence Uriri has been a freedom fighter of the Zimbabwean liberation war. She worked at Zimbabwe's Broadcasting Corporation Television before joining the independent production house of CVU. She is the founder of the production company Eye for Africa. She came as an ICORN guest writer to Lillehammer and currently teaches film at the University of Tromsø, Norway.

Nada Yousif

Guest Writer, Molde City of Refuge 2005 - 2007

Nada Yousif is a poet and journalist from Iraq. Her writing centers mainly on women's rights issues and the current socio-political situation in Iraq. Yousif's writing attracted persecution and death threats which forced her to flee her home country.

Salem Zènia

Guest Writer, Barcelona City of Refuge 2007 - 2009 

A well-known author and poet, Salem Zènia has been given a diploma of honor from the Tamazgha Association in Paris, for his contributions to Amazigh literature. Zènia is a journalist, poet and novelist. He is also the editor of a francophile monthly publication. Because he writes in the Kabylic-Berber language of Amazigh, and because of his human rights activism, publication of his books has been prohibited in Algeria.

Hamza Zirem

Guest writer, Potenza City of Refuge 2009 - 2010

Hamza Zirem is an Algerian writer and poet, Kabylian from the Berber region. He has published four books of poetry as well as other books. In 2007, he was forced to flee Algeria and in 2009 he became the guest writer of Potenza. In Italy, he published the book Rencontres littéraires à Potenza (2009). It contains lectures about four writers with a connection to Algeria, as well as his own poems.