Hazara Mostafa

Born in 1989 in the Behsoud region of Afghanistan, Mostafa Hazara spent his childhood in Iran, where his parents requested asylum. Returning to Afghanistan in 2005 after the departure of the Taliban, he studied political science. A member of Pen and the Afghan Writers Union, he heads the Afghan Cultural Foundation. He has established himself as an anti-war poet, a poet from Pole-e-sokh (a neighborhood in western Kabul), with three published collections of poems and four more ready to be published. He is a journalist for print media and television and organizes festivals (contemporary poetry, poetry for young people, Ten Years of Fiction in Afghanistan). He took refuge in France after the return of the Taliban in August 2021 and resides at the Cité internationale des arts. He is participating in a translation residency at the Centre international de poésie in Marseille, which will be presented in Montevideo during the Visions d’exil 2022 festival. He is the winner of the Habib Sharifi Prize and the ACCR’s NORA program, and is invited to readings by the CNL and the French Pen Club. With the Artists in Exile workshop, of which he is a member, he hosts the monthly Mots en exil evenings at the Maison de la Poésie in Paris.

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