My Dreadful Body

Egana Djabbarova, born in 1992 into an Azerbaijani family in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a poet, essayist, and scholar. She is the author of several collections of poetry. Having been forced to flee Russia in 2024 because of her LGBTQ activism and opposition to the war in Ukraine, she lives in Hamburg, Germany.

 

“Egana Djabbarova writes in vivid imagery and refined, almost poetic language . . . She shows the oppression of women across generations. It is both impressive and admirable that she has broken this cycle and tells the story.”

 

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ORF Austrian Radio

 

 “It’s shocking how much the repression of women is based upon their physicality and also on how women themselves treat their own bodies. In language that’s infinitely sensitive, gentle, and poetic, Egana Djabbarova recounts a brutal and sinister state of affairs.”

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North German Radio