Ani Gjika
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Ani Gjika

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Ani Gjika is an Albanian-born writer, literary translator and author of Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013) a finalist for the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and the 2011 May Sarton New Hampshire Book Prize. Gjika moved to the U.S. when she was 18, earning an M.A. in English at Simmons University and an M.F.A. in poetry at Boston University. Her translation from the Albanian of Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku was published in 2018 by Bloodaxe Books in the UK where it was Poetry Book Society's Recommended Translation and shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. It was published in the same year by New Directions in the U.S. where it was a finalist for a PEN Award and Best Translated Book Award. Gjika is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the NEA, English PEN, the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and, most recently, Restless Books’ 2021 Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her forthcoming memoir, An Unruled Body. She teaches social studies, literature, and writing to English Language Learners at Framingham High School.
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