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Roja Chamankar
Born	(1981-05-20) 20 May 1981 (age 43) Borazjan, Bushehr Province, Iran
Occupation	Poet
Language	Persian

Roja Chamankar (Persian: روجا چمنکار), born 20 May 1981 in Borazjan, Bushehr Province, Iran, in southern Iran, is a Persian poet.

She was born two years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, studied Literature and Cinema in Tehran, and her PhD in Persian Literature is in Strasbourg. She participated in a number of international poetry festivals, including the Poetry Biennial Val-de-Marne in 2005 and the Voix vives de Méditerranée en Méditerranée festival in Sète in 2013.

Her poems have been published in various Iranian magazines and newspapers. She has also directed a film and has presented children's television programmes in Iran.

Published works

• You've Gone, Bring Me Some South
• Nine Months Stones
• Escape My Lips from the Roof
• Dying in a Mother Tongue

References

1. "SUDOC–191751766". viaf.org. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
2. ^ "Voix Vives de méditerranée en méditerranée | Annexe au dossier de presse | Notices biographiques" (PDF). 19 June 2015. p. 9. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
3. "Roja Chamankar – Éditions Bruno Doucey". editions-brunodoucey.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
4. "Her life in poetry". Times of Malta. 21 August 2016.
5. "Je ressemble à une chambre noire – Éditions Bruno Doucey". editions-brunodoucey.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
6. "Iranian Poet: Roja Chamankar". caroun.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
7. Xue, Leah (16 April 2019). ""Both a Poem and a Microcosm:" An Interview with Roja Chamankar". Michigan Quarterly Review.

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