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Yevgeny Demenok
Yevgeny Demenok is a writer and scholar of the work of renowned modernist David Burliuk.
Photo by Miguel Buenodiv>Daniel Dencik
Daniel Dencik is an award-winning Danish writer and film director. His films include the documentary Expedition to the End of the World, which can be viewed on Netflix. As a writer he is known for an existential and bittersweet look on life. “Labrador” is from Grand Danois, a collection of short stories nominated as Book of the Year in Denmark 2017.
Chard deNiord
Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (2020), as well as two books of interviews with eminent American poets titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on Twentieth-Century Poetry (2011) and I Would Lie to You if I Could (2018). He taught English and creative writing at Providence College for twenty-two years, where he is now professor emeritus. For the past four years, he has worked as the essay editor at Plume poetry journal, and from 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont.
Ming Di
Ming Di is a poet from China based in the US. The author of seven books of poetry in Chinese and one in collaborative translation, River Merchant’s Wife (2012), she has compiled and co-translated New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Empty Chairs: Poems by Liu Xia, The Book of Cranes, and New Poetry from China 1917–2017. She has also co-edited three issues of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. For her translation of English poetry into Chinese, she received the Lishan Poetry Award and the 2021 Best Ten Translator Award in China.
Rossella Di Paolo
Rossella Di Paolo (b. 1960, Lima) studied literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her most recent verse collection, La silla en el mar, won the “Luces” Prize awarded by the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio for 2016 Best Book of Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of anthologies of Peruvian and Latin American poetry. In 2020 she won the Premio Casa de la Literatura Peruana prize and was distinguished as a Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture.
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz (b. 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review. His novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008.
Wilhelm Dichter
Wilhelm Dichter (b. 1935) is a Polish-American writer, his 1996 literary debut God’s Horse was nominated for the Nike, the top literary award in Poland. His second book The Atheists’ School also was nominated for the Nike. He and his wife currently reside in the Boston area.
Bernard Diederich
Bernard Diederich (b. 1926) is a New Zealand-born writer and historian. His awards include the Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal in 1976, the Overseas Press Club’s Mary Hemingway citation for the best reporting abroad in 1983, the James Nelson Goodsell Award in 2003, as well as the Caonabo de Oro Award in 2003.
Lisa DiGiovanni
Lisa DiGiovanni is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana State University. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth- through twentieth-century Spanish Peninsular and Latin American literature and film from a transnational perspective, with an emphasis on the relationship among history, literature, memory, nostalgia, and gender.
Lidija Dimkovska
Lidija Dimkovska (b. 1971, Skopje, Macedonia) has published seven books of poetry, three novels, one American diary, and one short-story collection translated into fifteen languages. Her novels Hidden Camera (2004) and A Spare Life (2012) received the award of the Writers’ Union of Macedonia for the best prose book of the year. A Spare Life also received the European Union Prize for Literature (2013) and was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2017. Her last poetry collection, Boundary Situation, received the “Brothers Miladinov” award for the best Macedonian poetry book (2021).
Kiki Dimoula
Kiki Dimoula is a member of the Academy of Athens. She has been awarded the Greek State Prize twice, the Grand State Prize, the Ouranis Prize, and the Aristeion of Letters (given by the Academy of Athens), as well as the European Prize for Literature. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, Danish, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and many other languages.
Fred Dings
Fred Dings’s books of poetry include Eulogy for a Private Man (TriQuarterly Books), After the Solstice (Orchises Press), and two chapbooks, Vespers and The Bruised Sky. The poems featured here are part of his newly completed third full-length collection, not yet submitted for publication. Dings teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina.
Cem Dinlenmiş
Cem Dinlenmiş is interested in a variety of narrative forms ranging from cartoons and illustrations to graphic journalism and paintings. Since 2006, he has been drawing a satirical series for comic magazines Penguen and Uykusuz in Turkey.
Photo by Gavyn Redddiv>Boubacar Boris Diop
Award-winning Senegalese author Boubacar Boris Diop (b. 1946) is one of today’s most prominent African novelists, playwrights, and essayists. Read more about his life and work from this issue.
Photo by Bettina Straubdiv>Esther Dischereit
Esther Dischereit is a poet, essayist, and playwright in Berlin. She is the author of the essay collection Mama darf ich das Deutschlandlied singen (2020) and editor of Hab keine Angst, erzähl alles. Das Attentat von Halle und die Stimmen der Überlebenden (2021). Her verse collection Sometimes a Single Leaf appeared in English in 2020 (Arc Publications) and was reviewed in the Summer 2020 issue of WLT.
Dan Disney
Dan Disney's latest books are accelerations and inertias (Vagabond Press, 2021) and, together with Matthew Hall, New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry (Palgrave, 2021). He teaches with the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul.
Tove Ditlevsen
One of Denmark’s best-known writers, Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976) is the author of many books, including the autofiction The Copenhagen Trilogy, available in English translation.
Tessa Ditner
Tessa Ditner is half French and half English, which is the main problem. She is a Cambridge University philosophy graduate from Corpus Christi College, where she got told off constantly for putting on plays instead of writing essays on free will. She specialized in literary journalism at Roehampton University during her MA, because it seemed so wonderfully nosey. You can follow her misadventures in London’s art and theater scene on Twitter @CultureKiddo.
Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar (b. 1936) is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen. She was born in a small coastal town in Algeria, where her father taught French. In 1955, she was the first woman to be accepted into the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she published her first novel in 1957. Her pen name originated from this novel, which she feared would anger her father. Her first collection of verse was published in 1969, the same year that she would also publish her first work of drama. In 1978 she became a film director, and her work on La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua ("The Mount Chenoua Band of Women") granted her the prestigious Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1979. In 2005, based on her superior body of work, Djebar was accepted to the Académie française and represents the first elector from the Mahgreb.
Dubravka Djurić
Dubravka Djurić (b. 1961) is a Croatian author of poetry and essays. She performs her writings as well.
Tamas Dobozy
Tamas Dobozy is a Canadian writer and teacher at Laurier University in Ontario. In 2012, he won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Siege 13, his book of short stories.
Christopher Domínguez Michael
Christopher Domínguez Michael (b. 1962) is a Mexican writer, historian, and literary critic. In 2006, he received the Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 2010 he has spent time as a research associate at the College of Mexico.
Photo by Mark Gnothdiv>Johanna Domokos
Johanna Domokos is a poet, translator, and editor (hochroth Bielefeld, translingual and performative series) and has been an international promoter of the Sámi literary field for more than two decades.
Michael Don
Michael Don is the author of the story collection Partners and Strangers (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019). He teaches at George Mason University and co-edits Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature.
Diego Doncel
Diego Doncel is a Spanish poet, novelist, and critic. The volume Territorios bajo vigilancia (Visor, 2015) is a compilation of all of his poetry. His latest book is El fin del mundo en las televisiones (Visor, 2015). He has also published the novels El ángulo de los secretos femeninos, Mujeres que dicen adiós con la mano, and Amantes en el tiempo de la infamia.
Photo by Tineke de Langediv>Han Dong
Han Dong (b. 1961) is a Chinese writer and blogger. He has work in both Chinese and English.
Erin Donnelly
Erin Donnelly is a WLT intern studying professional writing and international area studies at the University of Oklahoma. She enjoys travel, books, coffee, and dogs.