Untold Literatures - Paranda Network
In cooperation with Untold Narratives CIC and Weiter Schreiben from WIR MACHEN DAS e.V., KfW Stiftung offers workshops and programmes for writers in marginalised communities and makes their perspectives visible.
Literaturtandems: Untold - Weiter Schreiben Afghanistan
Publikationen
- Weiter Schreiben-Magazin: Dieser Schatten ist nicht ich
- My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
- A Fistful of Moonlight: Stories from Assam
- My Dear Kabul: A year in the life of an Afghan women’s writing group
Villa 102
- Neue Stimmen afghanischer Schriftstellerinnen
- Write Assamese. Writing, translating and publishing regional languages
Partner
Many are currently unable to tell their stories beyond their immediate communities. In workshops, writers have the opportunity to develop their writing in their own language, grow their networks and reach international audiences through professional translation. Consisting of four components – writing, networking, publishing and translation – Untold Literatures contributes to the development of a local literary infrastructure.
Since 2023, KfW Stiftung has been developing the Paranda Network together with Untold Narratives CIC, which stems from the programme Write Afghanistan. Whether in Afghanistan or in the diaspora, the aim is to build a virtual community network for previously unheard writers. In addition, KfW Stiftung has supported Write Assamese in 2022, an initiative to promote Indian literature in regional languages and its translation.
Paranda Network (since 2023)
In 2023, KfW Stiftung together with Untold Narratives CIC established the Paranda Network. The project was conceived out of the need to support the work of refugee, migrant and asylum-seeking writers, regardless of where they are currently located. It is a virtual network for emerging writers in their regions of origin and the diaspora who write in Dari and Pashto. The programme offers them the opportunity to support each other across national borders, to develop their writing and connects them to creative industries around the world. The Paranda Network thus creates a globally networked infrastructure that is unique to date: it offers access to the development of literary skills through writing workshops. At the same time, it creates a community in which knowledge is shared and skills are developed through joint exchange.
In 2023, the project will start with a group of 18 Afghan women writers and will be gradually built up and expanded regionally by 2025.
Literature Tandems: Untold - Weiter Schreiben Afghanistan
Judith Hermann und Zaheda
Francesca Mealdri und Shamsia
Yael Inokai und Tamanna Easar
The texts and literary dialogues are presented on the online portal weiterschreiben.jetzt and published in German as well as in the mother tongue of the Afghan writers. For security reasons, some of the Afghan authors publish under pseudonyms.
Fatema Haidari & Paula Fürstenberg
Marie Bamyani & Tanasgol Sabbagh
Parand (Pseudonym) & Mithu Sanyal
The texts and literary dialogues are presented on the online portal weiterschreiben.jetzt and published in German as well as in the mother tongue of the Afghan writers. For security reasons, some of the Afghan authors publish under pseudonyms.
Nargis (pseudonym) & Karosh Taha
Masoma Kawsary & Heike Geißler
Naeema Ghani & Heike-Melba Fendel
The texts and literary dialogues are presented on the online portal weiterschreiben.jetzt and published in German as well as in the mother tongue of the Afghan writers. For security reasons, some of the Afghan authors publish under pseudonyms.
Maliha Naji and Dilek Güngör
Raha Mozaffari and Elke Schmitter
Fatema Key and Svenja Leiber
The texts and literary dialogues are presented on the online portal weiterschreiben.jetzt and published in German as well as in the mother tongue of the Afghan writers. For security reasons, some of the Afghan authors publish under pseudonyms.
Freshta Ghani and Daniela Dröscher
Maryam Mahjube and Ilma Rakusa
Batool and Marica Bodrožić
The texts and literary dialogues are presented on the online portal weiterschreiben.jetzt and published in German as well as in the mother tongue of the Afghan writers. For security reasons, some of the Afghan authors publish under pseudonyms.
Partner
Untold Narratives CIC is a London based writer development programme for writers marginalised by community or conflict. Local writers, who are currently unable to tell their stories beyond their immediate communities, have the opportunity to develop their writing; share their stories with wider communities in their own language; and reach new global audiences in translation.
Weiter Schreiben is a Berlin based platform for literature from areas of conflict and war zones. Weiterschreiben.jetzt is an online platform for authors in exile and those who cannot publish or continue to write in their home countries due to political conflicts. The project enables refugee writers, or those who live in these regions and who can no longer publish, to continue writing. Weiter Schreiben connects these writers with established authors in Germany. Together, they work in tandems on a long-term basis. Participating writers gain attention by publishing their texts on the platform weiterschreiben.jetzt, as well as through public readings and highly committed press work. In this way, they enrich the German literary and cultural discourse with their perspectives.
Weiter Schreiben is a project of WIR MACHEN DAS (wearedoingit e.V.), funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Programme Management
Daniela Leykam
Photo credits
01. Image: Untold Narratives CIC
02. Image: Untold Narratives CIC
03. Image: KfW Stiftung / Photographer: Salar Baygan
04. Image :Untold Narratives CIC / Photographer: Juliette Moarbes