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| Native name | Naomi Foyle |
| Born | 22 February 1967 London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | poet, novelist, essayist, editor, translator, activist |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | British literature |
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Naomi Foyle (born 22 February 1967) is a British-Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, editor, translator and activist. For her poetry and essays about Ukraine, she was awarded the 2014 Hryhorii Skovoroda Prize. [1]
Her book, Seoul Survivors, was praised by The Guardian . [2]
Library Journal recommended the series The Gaia Chronicles "for Hunger Games fans of all ages". [3] "Astra", the first book in the series, was a Litro Book Club Read in 2014. [4] Astra an Arts Council England-funded theatre adaptation of Naomi Foyle’s eco-science fiction quartet The Gaia Chronicles, written by Naomi Foyle with Raven Kaliana of Puppet (R)Evolution, and designed and directed by Raven Kaliana, [5] , [6] , [7] won the 2022 Brighton Fringe ONCA Green Curtain Award for work that engages artists and audiences with social and environmental challenges. [8] Working with a new international team, Naomi Foyle is now upscaling ASTRA into an epic trilogy of plays.
Naomi Foyle is Poetry and Fiction Editor of Critical Muslim, the journal of the Muslim Institute. [9] and the editor of over thirty volumes of poetry including A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books, 2017). [10] As a co-founder with Judith Kazantzis and Irving Weinman of British Writers in Support of Palestine (2010-2018), Naomi Foyle played a leading role in national letter writing campaigns in support of the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. [11]
In 2021, Foyle disclosed on her blog that she had been diagnosed with autism the previous year at the age of 53. [12]
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