I Am the Beggar of the World
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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan is a 2014 collection of over 100 landays written by female Afghans, and translated into English by Eliza Griswold. The book also includes images taken by Seamus Murphy. The collection was generally well received, winning the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Critics praised the window the poems offered into the lives of women in Afghanistan as well as Murphy's photographs and other contextual materials included by Griswold.