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The Roads of the Roma

A PEN anthology of Gypsy writers

Editor: Ian Hancock, Siobhan Dowd , Rajko Djuric

Price: £12.99

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“The Roads of the Roma has taken me into a new world of great beauty, imagination and mystery. The 'invisible people' step into the light along a path of poetry.”

-Antonia Fraser,

About the book

“This anthology of the best Roma poets and writers has been sensitively compiled and ends with biographies of the authors. Excellent translations” Romano Centro

In this unique anthology, Romani poets and writers from twenty countries address a devastating legacy of slavery, pogroms, expulsions, hangings, fire bombings and genocide.

Forty-three poems and prose extracts, most appearing in English for the first time, are arranged alongside an 800-year chronology of repression.

Professor Ian Hancock’s introduction traces the growth of a written literature out of an oral tradition. What emerges is a portrait of a people struggling to preserve their identity in a hostile world.

  • About the Editor/s:

    Ian Hancock

    Ian Hancock is Director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972.

    He was born in Britain and descends on his father's side from Hungarian Romungre Romanies and on his mother's side from English Romanichal Gypsies.

    He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Bill Clinton.


    Siobhan Dowd

    Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist. The last book she completed, Bog Child posthumously won the 2009 Carnegie Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best book for children or young adults published in the UK.


    Rajko Djuric

    Raјko Đurić is a Serbian Romani writer and academic. He is also politically active as the leader of one of Romani parties in Serbia - Roma Union of Serbia.

    He studied philosophy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy (1967–1972). In 1986 he obtained a Doctorate of Sociology writing the dissertation Culture of the Roma in S.F.R. Yugoslavia. In 1991 he moved to Berlin avoiding involvement in the Yugoslavian wars.

    He wrote more than 500 articles and, until leaving Yugoslavia, was the chief redactor for the cultural section of the newspaper Politika in Belgrade.

    He was the President of the International Romani Union and is the General Secretary of the Romani Centre of International PEN.

    His literary works have been translated into more than five languages. In 2011, he co-founded a Romani academy of arts and sciences in Belgrade and has been its president since then.

ISBN: 978-0-900458-90-3 Format: Paperback, 160pp Published: Oct 1998

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