Karima Shabrang

Poet

From:

Afghanistan

Photo:

Karima Shabrang. Credits: Jasper Kettner / DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Karima Shabrang is an award-winning poet from Afghanistan. She has written and published five collections of poetry, and her work has been the subject of academic scholarship.

The Afghan Voice Agency, the first media agency founded after the fall of the former Taliban regime, published a documentary film about poetry made by Karima Shabrang in 2019. In addition, Shabrang, who holds a BA in Persian Language and Literature from Kabul University, has worked as a teacher of Persian literature and a teacher trainer and gender consultant for various organisations in Kabul.

She was persecuted for the topics addressed in her poetry, including female desire and eroticism. As a result, she was in ICORN residency in Berlin between 2022 and 2024 with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin programme, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of the partnership with ICORN.

Some of the poems written during her stay in protection are published in German translation in the collection Ich atmete Erde, sprach Regen ('I breathed earth, spoke rain').

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