Günel Mövlud

Günel Mövlud (b. 1981, Azerbaijan) is a feminist, translator, journalist and poet.
She came to live in Levanger, Norway in 2016 as a writer in residence as an ICORN free city writer.
At the age of 12, Mövlud was forced to flee her hometown in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh following the outbreak of war with Armenia.
Mövlud graduated from the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts in 2003 and began her career as a journalist in 2004, working from the cultural publication Kino until 2006. Later, she worked for the youth newspaper Alma and as an art critic.
In addition to her journalism, Mövlud has also published literary works, including Darkness and Us (2004), 5 XL (2011) and Response to the Late Afternoon (2013) and her work has been translated into English and Norwegian. As a translator, Mövlud has translated books from Russian to Azeri, including Viktor Pelevin’s Oman Ra, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Stendhal’s Red and Black.