Romani literature explained

Romani literature or Roma literature is literature by Romani people. It is composed of both written and oral literature.^{[1] [2]} Authors may most likely reside in various countries throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa and these continents have a long history of being home to Romani people.^[3] One aspect of Romani literature are testimonies by survivors of the Romani genocide, that emerged in the 1980s.^{[4] [5]}

List of Romani authors

Austria

• Ceija Stojka

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Muharem Serbezovski

Canada

• Ronald Lee

Czech Republic

• Andrej Giňa

Finland

• Veijo Baltzar
• Kiba Lumberg

France

• Matéo Maximoff

Germany

• Philomena Franz
• Otto Rosenberg

Hungary

• Menyhért Lakatos

Poland

• Bronisława Wajs

Serbia

• Vera Kurtić
• Jovan Nikolić

Slovakia

• Elena Lacková

Sweden

• Katarina Taikon

United Kingdom

• Tracey Ullman

United States

• Caren Gussoff
• Oksana Marafioti
• Seanan McGuire
• Hillary Monahan

Further reading

Books

• Book: Roman . Zahova . Marinov . Raluca Bianca . Sofiya . Aleksandar . Roma Writings: Romani Literature and Press in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II . Brill . 2021 . 9783506705204 . 1274165213 .
• Book: Hancock . Dowd . Djurić . Ian . Siobhan . Rajko. The Roads of the Roma: a PEN anthology of Gypsy writers . University of Hertfordshire Press . October 1, 1998 . 9780900458903 . 42214799 .
• Book: Tahirović-Sijerčić . Levine-Rasky . Hedina . Cynthia . A Romani Women's Anthology: Spectrum of the Blue Water . 978-1-77133-401-3 . Inanna Publications and Education Inc . 2017 . 1047745299 .

Articles

• Web site: Literature . RomArchive .
• Web site: Chech . Petra . Oral Literature . RomArchive .
• Web site: Council of Europe . Factsheets on Romani Literature .
• Web site: Writers & Poets . Romani Herstory .

See also

• Romani studies
• Anti-Romani sentiment

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chech . Petra . Oral Literature . RomArchive .
2. Web site: Council of Europe . Factsheets on Romani Literature .
3. Web site: Fotta . Martin . Romani Atlantic: Transcontinental Logic of Ethno-Racial Identities . Institute of Ethnology: Czech Academy of Sciences .
4. Book: French, Lorely . Approaches to a “new" World Literature: Romani Literature(s) as (re-)writing and self-empowerment . Hertrampf . Marina Ortrud M. . 2023-11-20 . Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM . 978-3-95477-157-8 . 147-148 . en.
5. Book: Baer, Elizabeth Roberts . Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust . Goldenberg . Myrna . 2003 . Wayne State University Press . 978-0-8143-3063-0 . 53-54 . en.