Romani literature

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
• Sandra Jayat

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

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

Articles

• "Literature". RomArchive.
• Chech, Petra. "Oral Literature". RomArchive.
• Council of Europe. "Factsheets on Romani Literature".
• "Writers & Poets". Romani Herstory. Archived from the original on May 19, 2021.

See also

• Romani studies
• Anti-Romani sentiment
• Category:Romani literature
• Category:Romani writers