
Dr Parwana Fayyaz
@parwanafayyaz
Professor of Persian Studies @UVA. JRF @Peterhouse_Cam. PhD @TrinCollCam. @Stanford. Poet and Researcher. Author of 40 Names (book). Forward Prize winner.
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Three years of teamwork Untold Narratives Big thanks to the 21 Afghan women writers, Will Forrester Sunila Galappatti Dr Parwana Fayyaz and the many others who made this book. #Don’tForgetAfghanistan

Look what just arrived! Personal accounts from an Afghan women writers’ WhatsApp group in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover, collated by Untold Narratives. It’s been a while since I pre-ordered a book, but I’m excited to read this and wanted to get it ASAP!


Congratulations on new book “My Dear #Kabul” by Afghan women writers - some of their team came in to the BBC Radio 4 Today studio - Lucy Hannah Batool Haidari Dr Parwana Fayyaz Untold Narratives 📚



🎉 Celebrating Women in Translation Month literary translators Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Negeen Kargar share their favourite books: Memorial by Alice Oswald & The Museum of Innocence translated by Maureen Deidre Freely 📚 #WomenInTranslationMonth #LiteraryTranslation


One of My Dear Kabul’s literary translators Dr Parwana Fayyaz was on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire with Louise Hulland talking about her translation of My Dear Kabul (1:19:30 to listen): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… #AfghanWomen #AfghanLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation


Glad to be joining the event for My Dear Kabul Untold Narratives - an extraordinary interwoven narrative of change and solidarity by 21 Afghan women writers King's Libraries #maughamlibrary - with Lynne O'Donnell Sunila Galappatti Dr Parwana Fayyaz Batool Haidari


Thank you to everyone who joined us at the British Library to hear the story behind My Dear Kabul (Coronet , 2024). Special thanks to lyse doucet, panelists Marie, Batool Haidari, Negeen Kargar, Dr Parwana Fayyaz, Sunila Galappatti, Lucy Hannah, Lillie Razvi Toon and Bee Rowlatt.


🎙️📷"The writers of 'My Dear Kabul' emphasise that the diary is not a plea to the world. These women are not writing to be saved, but to be seen and be heard." A conversation with Marie, Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Sunila Galappatti of Untold Narratives. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3NQJPw…

We're delighted to collaborate with writersmosaic to bring you this special edition. Published today, 'Portholes', edited by Sunila Galappatti, features journals of exile from Batool Haidari, Fakhta, Freshta, Marie and Zainab. Dr Parwana Fayyaz Negeen Kargar writersmosaic.org.uk/content/portho…

Citizen Poet- new and selected essays by Eavan Boland online Carcanet Press launch. Brilliant contributions by Dr Parwana Fayyaz, Mary O’Malley, Colm Tóibín, Lucy Collins and John McAuliffe.


"Your disobedient daughter" Marie writes home (to the patriarchy, she tells us). In this Untold Narratives guest edition of writersmosaic, five contributors to #MyDearKabul meditate on their arrivals in exile. Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Negeen Kargar translate. writersmosaic.org.uk/content/my-dea…

“It is strange: we are thousands of miles apart, and I still think about what you and Madar would think.” Don't forget to delve into our latest guest edition, Portholes. This essay is called My dear father by Marie, translated by Dr Parwana Fayyaz bit.ly/3YsFdZc

Parwana Fayyaz Dr Parwana Fayyaz, Afghan poet, scholar, author of Forty Names (Carcanet Press, 2021), co-editor and co-translator of My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024), will be speaking at the Amplify Human Rights Festival Woolwich Works Amnesty International on 7 December amnesty.org.uk/amplify-human-…

A special live podcast recording of The Guilty Feminist Podcast at #Amplify. DeborahFrances-White, Samira Hamidi, Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Susan Wokoma discuss the situation faced by women and girls in Afghanistan.



Parwana Fayyaz Dr Parwana Fayyaz, co-editor and co-translator of My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024), joined Guilty Feminist live podcast recording at the Amplify Human Rights Festival by Amnesty International with Samira Hamidi, DeborahFrances-White and Susan Wokoma. Listen here: bit.ly/49u1yuA

