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Marie Silkeberg, born in 1961 in Denmark, lives in Stockholm, Sweden.  She is a poet, translator and professor in Literary Composition at the University of Gothenburg. She has published six books of poetry,  most recent: 23:23, (Bonniers 2006 ) and Material, (Bonniers 2010). She has translated the works of poets such as Susan Howe, Rosmarie Waldrop and Inger Christensen among others. She is also working with sound compositions and poetry films in collaboration with composers and filmmakers. A collection of essays Avståndsmätning was published 2005.

Ghayath Almadhoun born in 1979 in Damascus, Syria.He lives in Sweden.He has studied Arabic literature in four years at Damascus University and worked as a journalist since 1999.He has written cultural articles and book and theater reviews for various Arabic-language magazines and newspapers such as Al-Hayat and Al-Quds al-Arabi (London) and Annahar (Beirut). He founded in 2006, together with the Syrian poet Lukman Derky, a litteraturhus – The House of Poetry – in Damascus.In 2004 “Qasaed sakatat sahwan” granted Almazraa Award, in 2008 “The bigger the city gets, the smaller my room”, in 2010 “Asylansökan”. He works with poetry films since 2010.   

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