Maryam Hooleh

Maryam Hooleh is an Iranian Kurd currently living in Sweden. She was born in Tehran. She began to write at an early age. At the age of seventeen, Hooleh traveled from Iran to Greece, illegally and on foot. It took 23 days to make the trip to Athens. She stayed one year and then returned to Iran. Mansoureh Saboori, an American director and filmmaker, made a documentary about her life, her poems and her trip to Greece called Another Birth.[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/active-cultures-an-iranian-woman-looks-into-the-sun/Content?oid=904938 "Active Cultures: an Iranian woman looks into the sun".]. Chicago Reader. (“Another birth” is also the name of a book written by Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad.{{cite web|url=http://www.forughfarrokhzad.org/selectedworks/selectedworks1.asp|title=Forugh Farrokhzad|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506180851/http://www.forughfarrokhzad.org/selectedworks/selectedworks1.asp|archive-date=2015-05-06|url-status=dead|access-date=2013-02-15}})

Hooleh's poetry deals with topics concerning the Islamic regime and hutouchede. It has touched on themes about the female body and repression under the Iran regime.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gozaar.org/english/articles-en/The-Poetry-of-Maryam-Hooleh.html|title=The Poetry of Maryam Hooleh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528200147/http://www.gozaar.org/english/articles-en/The-Poetry-of-Maryam-Hooleh.html|archive-date=2015-05-28|url-status=dead|access-date=2015-05-28}} Her works tend to question religious and cultural taboos and criticize the human condition in the postmodern world. Her poetry is usually labeled as postmodernist.{{cite web|url=http://www.chouk.ir/maghaleh-naghd-gotogoo/11041-2015-03-17-15-05-24.html|title=بررسی عناصر روایی در مجموعه شعر "باجه نفرین" شاعر "مریم هوله"؛ "‌غزال مرادی"|first=مهدی|last=رضایی|website=www.chouk.ir}}

Hooleh's first book, The kite will never fly in my hands, was published in 1998 by Midland Graphic publishing in Chicago. Her second book, In the Alleys of Athens, was published in 1999 by the Mir-Kasra publishing house in Tehran.

In 2000, Hooleh was invited by The Iranian Women Studies Foundation{{cite web|url=http://www.iwsf.org/?page=frontpage&lang=en|title=iwsf|website=iwsf}} to Sweden where her third book, Cursed Booth, was published by Baran publications. In 2003 she won a literary scholarship from Swedish PEN and moved to Sweden. Her fourth and fifth books, Contemporaneous leprosy and Hell INC, were published by Arzan publications in 2004 and her sixth book, The Sticky Dreams of a Banished Butterfly, was published over the net as an E-book and Audio Book. Her poetry has also been among the most selected works for translation in anthologies.{{cite web|url=http://www.aslanmedia.com/aslan-media-content-partners/106-featured-partner-levantine-cultural-center/1272-the-forbidden-poets-of-iran-new-anthology|title=Web Page Under Construction|website=www.aslanmedia.com|access-date=2015-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528182023/http://www.aslanmedia.com/aslan-media-content-partners/106-featured-partner-levantine-cultural-center/1272-the-forbidden-poets-of-iran-new-anthology|archive-date=2015-05-28|url-status=dead}}

Hooleh's poems have been translated to English,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=acPioGvXtJ4C|title=The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles|first=Sholeh|last=Wolpé|date=1 January 2012|publisher=MSU Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9781609173296}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/10/voices-in-exile-three-poets.html|title=Voices in Exile: Three Poets|last=Fani|first=Aria|website=PBS|date=10 October 2010|access-date=18 April 2019}} Swedish,{{Cite web|url=http://www.sahneha.com/|title=Trending News Worldwide -|website=Trending News Worldwide|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803025141/http://www.sahneha.com/|archive-date=2019-08-03|url-status=dead}} French, Kurdish, Turkish and some other languages, and she was one of the poets invited to the Struga Poetry Evenings in 2014.{{Cite web |url=http://m.independent.mk//articles/6656/Brazilian+%22Radioactive%22+Poet+to+Partake+in+Struga+Poetry+Evenings+Festival |title=Brazilian "Radioactive" Poet to Partake in Struga Poetry Evenings Festival - Independent.mk |access-date=2015-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528160228/http://m.independent.mk//articles/6656/Brazilian+%22Radioactive%22+Poet+to+Partake+in+Struga+Poetry+Evenings+Festival |archive-date=2015-05-28 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://svp.org.mk/years/2014/?lang=en|title=2014 – Struga Poetry Evenings|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-18}}

• The kite will never fly in my hands - Midland Graphic publishing- Chicago 1998.
• In Athens streets - Mir Kasra publishing- Tehran 2000- first edition.
• Cursed Booth - Baran publishing- Stockholm 2000.{{Cite web |url=http://www.baran.se/index.php/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%B1.html |title=شعر | Baran Publishing |access-date=2015-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528160203/http://www.baran.se/index.php/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%B1.html |archive-date=2015-05-28 |url-status=dead }}
• Contemporaneous Leprosy - Arzan publishing- Stockholm 2004 first edition.{{cite web |url=http://www.arzan.se/ |title=Home |website=arzan.se}}
• Inferno Inc - Arzan publishing/ Stockholm 2004 first edition.
• The Sticky Dreams of a Banished Butterfly - Davat publishing and Maniha publishing- 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.rezaghassemi.com/poem_64.htm|title=مريم هوله|website=www.rezaghassemi.com}}
• Contemporaneous Leprosy - Maniha publishing- Stockholm 2015- second edition.{{cite web|url=http://maniha.com/?sd_product=%DA%A9%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%8C-%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85-%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%87|title="کمپانی دوزخ"و"جزام معاصر"، مریم هوله - مانیها|website=maniha.com}}
• Inferno Inc - Maniha publishing- Stockholm 2015- second edition.
• Collusion In This Secret - Maniha publishing- Stockholm 2015.{{cite web|url=http://maniha.com/?page_id=2370|title=تبانی در این راز، مجموعه ی شعر، مریم هوله - مانیها|website=maniha.com}}

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• [http://maniha.com/archive/hooleh.frihetentorg.htm Maryam Hooleh]
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080513215527/http://othervoicespoetry.org/vol1/hoole/index.html Absolute nothingness]}}
• {{cite web|title=Voices in Exile: Three Poets - Tehran Bureau | FRONTLINE | PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/10/voices-in-exile-three-poets.html|website=www.pbs.org|accessdate=29 September 2014}}
• {{cite book|author=Sholeh Wolpé|title=The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=acPioGvXtJ4C&pg=PT5|date=1 January 2012|publisher=MSU Press|isbn=978-1-60917-329-6|pages=5–}}
• {{cite web|url=http://mebb.de/notes/2006/09/27/starrsinn/|title=Notes » Blog Archiv » Starrsinn}}

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