Roja Chamankar
{{Infobox writer
|name = Roja Chamankar
|image = Roja Chamankar A.JPG
|birth_place = Borazjan, Bushehr Province, Iran
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|5|20|df=y}}
|occupation = Poet
|language = Persian
}}
Roja Chamankar ({{langx|fa| 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
References
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- {{cite web|url=http://www.editions-brunodoucey.com/je-ressemble-a-une-chambre-noire/|title=Je ressemble à une chambre noire – Éditions Bruno Doucey|publisher=editions-brunodoucey.com|accessdate=2016-05-12}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.editions-brunodoucey.com/roja-chamankar/|title=Roja Chamankar – Éditions Bruno Doucey|publisher=editions-brunodoucey.com|accessdate=2016-05-12}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.caroun.com/Literature/Iran/ContemporaryPoets/RojaChamanKar/RojaChamanKar.html|title=Iranian Poet: Roja Chamankar|publisher=caroun.com|accessdate=2016-05-12}}
- {{cite web|url=http://viaf.org/processed/SUDOC|191751766|title=SUDOC–191751766|publisher=viaf.org|accessdate=2016-05-12}}
- {{cite web|url=http://medias.tourisme-sete.com/documents/DP_VoixVives_2015_Annexes_Bios_v19.06.pdf|title=Voix Vives de méditerranée en méditerranée | Annexe au dossier de presse | Notices biographiques |page=9|date=19 June 2015|accessdate=12 May 2016}}
- {{cite news |title=Her life in poetry |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/her-life-in-poetry.622689 |work=Times of Malta |date=21 August 2016 |language=en-gb}}
- {{cite news |last1=Xue |first1=Leah |title="Both a Poem and a Microcosm:" An Interview with Roja Chamankar |url=https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2019/04/both-a-poem-and-a-microcosm-an-interview-with-roja-chamankar/ |work=Michigan Quarterly Review |date=16 April 2019}}
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Category:20th-century Iranian poets
Category:Iranian Writers Association members
Category:21st-century Iranian poets
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