Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet''s Memoir of China''s Genocide

About Tahir Hamut Izgil

Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in the Uyghur language. He grew up in Kashgar an ancient city in the southwest of the Uyghur homeland. After attending college in Beijing he returned to the Uyghur region and emerged as a prominent film director. His poetry has appeared in Joshua L. Freeman's English translation in the New York Review of Books Asymptote Gulf Coast and elsewhere and has also been extensively translated into Chinese Japanese French and Turkish. He lives near Washington D.C. Joshua L. Freeman is a historian of twentieth-century China and a translator of Uyghur poetry. His writing and translations have appeared in the New York Times Guardian Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. He is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Joshua L. Freeman is a historian of twentieth-century China and a translator of Uyghur poetry. His writing and translations have appeared in the New York Times Guardian Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. He is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica in Taiwan.