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by Leah on April 10th, 2011

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What are some good writers/poets of Romani ancestry?

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  • by iwnit on April 11th, 2011

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    1) "In this page we present some famous people who are/were Roma or have/had Romany ancestry. Since the list would be quite long, we do not include here Flamenco artists, as their belonging to the Gitanos people is well-known and only few of them are not Roma.
    Some of the personalities listed here have kept their Romany identity secret or were suggested to do so, while others have declared it openly."
    "Austria - Ceija Stojka"
    "Austria-Hungary - Johann “Kalitsch” Horváth"
    "Belarus' - Valdemar Kalinin"
    "Finland - Veijo Baltzar"
    "Germany - Philomena Franz"
    "Greece - Patricio Kassimati Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi)"
    "Russia - Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pankov; Olga Pankova; Nina Aleksandrovna Dudarova"
    "Serbia - Alija Krasnići"
    "Slovakia - Elena Lacková"
    "Spain/France - Matéo Maximoff"
    "Sweden - Katarina Taikon"
    "Ukraine/Poland - Bronislawa Warmiak Wajs "Papusza""
    "United Kingdom - Louise Doughty"
    "United States - Cecilia Woloch"
    Source and further information:
    http://www.imninalu.net/famous-Gypsies.htm
    (the page gives detail information on the various persons)

    Further information:
    http://keskustelu.suomi24.fi/node/8431945


    2) "This is a list of famous or otherwise prominent Romani people (also known as Gypsies) and people of Romani origin":
    "Authors and writers:
    Veijo Baltzar – Finnish writer
    Rajko Djuric – (born 1947) Serbian writer & activist
    Caren Gussoff – American writer
    Delia Grigore – (born 1972) Romanian writer, academic and activist
    Bajram Haliti – Kosovo Romani writer
    Ronald Lee – Canadian Writer, Professor at the University of Toronto
    Matéo Maximoff – French writer
    Louise Doughty – British writer
    John Bunyan – Christian author[dubious – discuss]
    Lafcadio Hearn – Irish writer
    Charlie Smith – poet.
    Baja Saitovic Lukin – poet
    Mehmed Merejan
    Ceija Stojka – (born 1933) Austrian author and painter
    Katarina Taikon – (born 1932) Swedish children's writer
    Bronisława Wajs – (1908–1987) AKA "Papusza", Polish poet and singer"
    Source and further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romani_people#Authors_and_writers


    3) "The roads of the Roma: a PEN anthology of gypsy writers By Ian F. Hancock, Siobhan Dowd":
    http://books.google.com/books?id=j8Zg31lFgLsC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=writers+poets+of+Romani+ancestry+-%22Answerbag%22&source=bl&ots=k0ubkk4-zH&sig=3W5LUtq-rZH0Epjpy08Z9MHe6Fo&hl=en&ei=XkajTZntKsPBswa-hZmCAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false


    4) "ESSAY: What is Romany literature? by Karolína Ryvolová"
    http://www.transcript-review.org/en/issue/transcript-36-the-literatures-of-stateless-nations/essay-what-is-romany-literature-by-karolina-ryvolova

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