Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Fatemeh Ekhtesari (b 1968, Iran) is a poet, editor, activist and midwife who lives in Lillehammer. She fled from Iran in 2015 after being sentenced to 99 strokes of the whip and eleven and a half years in prison. She came to Norway in 2017 as an ICORN writer.

In October 2020 her poetry collection was published in Norwegian translation as Vi overlever ikke (We do not survive). She also contributed to the 2019 anthology Å kysse en ørken, å kysse en myr (Kissing a desert, kissing a marsh), which contains texts by ICORN poets living in Norway. In 2022 she published Hun er ikke kvinne (She is not a woman), which she wrote in Norwegian and Farsi in parallel.