Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu

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Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu (* 1982 in Adi Keyh ) is an Eritrean poet , writer and journalist .

Live and act

Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu wrote poetry in elementary school. She worked as an independent journalist and after the ban on private media she was program director at the radio station Radio Bana of the Eritrean Ministry of Education. On February 9, 2009, she and about 30 other people were arrested in the building of the radio station. She was accused of having connections with foreign media. The first two years were spent in solitary confinement in May SWRA -Gefängnis, where she was tortured. After 6 years in prison without charge and without trial, Fisseha Mebrahtu was released in 2015. She tried to flee Eritrea around 2017 but was arrested at the border and detained again for four months. After her release, she managed to flee abroad.

Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu, who has already published more than 100 poems, has been living in Munich since December 2018 as a scholarship holder of the Writers in Exile Scholarship of the PEN Center Germany .

The circumstances of her imprisonment attracted a great deal of international media interest.

Publications

  • I'm still alive , 2019 (in Tigrin ; translation in German and English in preparation)

Awards

  • 2019 Freedom of Expression Prize . Awarded by PEN Eritrea
  • Women, Writers and Activists Change Rules . Nomination by PEN – International

Web links

PEN Center Germany

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Crónica Popular of February 22, 2012: Tres años en las mazmorras eritreas: Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu (Spanish) ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Falter of November 13, 2019: Still alive. One country, one prison: the Eritrean poet Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu was imprisoned for six years. Now she lives in Munich ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  3. ↑ WDR 3 Kultur on Monday October 18, 2019: Voice of Eritrea: Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu (audio file) ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  4. ↑ German Cultural Council: Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  5. ↑ a b Bayerischer Rundfunk from November 5, 2019: We fight for life ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  6. ^ PEN Center Germany: The current Writers in Exile Scholarship Holders 2019 ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  7. ↑ epd.de: Wochenspiegel of October 21, 2019 ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  8. ↑ ARTICLE 19 of October 2012: Eritrea: A Nation Silenced (PDF; English) ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  9. ^ PEN International: Writers in Prison Committee. Caselist January – December 2013 (PDF; English) ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  10. ^ Book Vienna 2019: Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu ; accessed on November 19, 2019
  11. ↑ PEN Eritrea: Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu Receives PEN Eritrea's Freedom of Expression Award ; accessed on November 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Fisseha Mebrahtu, Yirgalem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisseha Mebrahtu, Yrgalem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Eritrean poet, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Adi Keyh