Stavanger welcomes new Guest Writer
Norwan arrived in Stavanger City of Refuge earlier this year. Norwan (pseudonym) is a female poet from Afghanistan, born in 1984. Due to her own and her family's safety she will remain anonymous - only using her chosen pseudonym Norwan.
Norwan has written both poems and texts describing what it is like being a woman in Afghanistan. Although expressing herself has led to serious threats to herself and others, Norwan still feels it is important for women in Afghanistan to speak up
There are very few who write out of Afghanistan. Most of the stories about life of women in Afghanistan are written by foreign female writers or male Afghan writers, she says.
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An Afghan Poet
(by Norwan)
Mothers
Sisters
Friends
Where are you?
Can you hear me?
I am a writer
An Afghan woman writer
But no one cares for my writings
No one reads them here
It is a crime
For a woman to write.
I am an Afghan woman writer
I don’t dare to read my poems aloud
The words cry when I write
The sentences hug me and say,
“Take it easy!”
My writing is cheap
It only brings tears.
I am an Afghan woman writer
Where can I write?
Somewhere I can hide my words
There is a mountain of papers in my heart
And a bank of stories to write
But I am afraid.
Hey, women of the world
Can you hear me?
Help me
Before I’m forced to
Bury my writings.
Let me write my last poem
Let me ask
Where can I find a lucky woman?
Where can I go to see a happy woman?
Where?
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