Biographies of Contributors

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SAYYIDA NAFISA BINT AL-HASAN 144/5-208 AH (762-824 CE) was the great-granddaughter of al-Hasan, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. She, along with a number of other descendants of the Prophet, became important to Egyptian Sufis and other pious Muslims wishing to visit the graves of the holy dead, both because her tomb is in Cairo, and because, according to legend, she separated from her husband (who moved back to Arabia) in order to assist and bless the inhabitants of Egypt. Shi'i Muslims also considered her holy because of her lineage. Some scholars have cast doubt on the authenticity of her tomb and the legends linking her to Egypt, since the earliest reference to her living there come from a Shi'ite source dated 150 years after her death. Authentic or not, tales of her life and miracles were regularly recorded in tabaqat literature (collections of biographies of individuals, often "holy," connected to a specific religious movements or schools within Islam), chronicles, and Arabic epic literature even into the modern era.

BETTY ROSE NAGLE is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University. Her translation of the Silvae, a collection of occasional poetry by the 1st century CE Roman poet Statius, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press in Spring 2004. She has also translated the Fasti, a poem about the Roman calendar of religious festivals by the Augustan Age Roman poet Ovid and has published a a monograph on the poetry Ovid wrote from exile on the Black Sea, as well as articles on narrative strategies in Ovid's masterwork, the Metamorphoses.

MICHAEL NAYDAN is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University where he has taught since 1988. He has authored seventeen books of annotated translations from Ukrainian and Russian and has more than thirty published articles and over sixty publications of translations in literary journals.

YURII NECHIPORENKO holds advanced degrees in Physics and Biophysics from Moscow University, where he is now a professor of Physics. Since 1988 he has published fiction for children, essays, novels, and hundreds of critical essays and reviews. He is an editor and contributor to several literary publications. He is the publisher of the internet journal Electronic Pampas's http://www.epampa.narod.ru/index.html, and Editor-in-Chief of the Internet journal Russkaya Zhizn (Russian Life), http://www.hrono.ru/proekty/ru/index.html. His fiction and essays have been translated into Serbian and Ukrainian.

MINA NEDIALKOVA Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1974, she attended a Russian language elementary and junior high school. Has studied at the Sorbonne and is now at Smith College.

GIAMPIERO NERI (1927- ) was born in Erba, Italy and lives in Milan. A leading exponent of the Milan school, he has published seven volumes of poetry: L'aspetto occidentale del vestito [The Western Look of Dress] (Milan: Guanda, 1976), Liceo [High School] (Milan-Palermo: Acquario-Guanda, 1986), Dallo stesso luogo [From the Same Place] (Milan: Coliseum, 1992), Teatro naturale [Natural Theater] (Milan: Mondadori, 1998), Erbario con figure [Herbarium with Pictures] (Como: Lietocolle, 2000), Finale (Como: Dialogolibri, 2002], Armi e mestieri [Weapons and Trades] (Milan: Mondadori, 2004). A collection of his prose writings will be published by Lietocolle: La serie dei fatti, quindici prose di Giampiero Neri [The Series of Facts, Fifteen Prose Writings by Giampiero Neri], edited and with an introduction by Victoria Surliuga.

ANDY NEWCOMB often co-translates Russian poetry with Nina Kossman. He collaborated with Kossman on some of the Tsvetaeva translation in Poem of the End.

KAREN NEWMAN is a Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Brown University, and is a comparatist working in early modern literature and culture, English, French, and Italian. Her books include Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character, Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama, and most recently, Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality. She has also published articles on various Renaissance topics.

TEODORO NDJOCK NGANA was born in 1952 in Ilanga (Cameroon). Son of a farming family of Basaa origin, he is noted for his political work in the struggle for Cameroon independence. In 1972, he enrolled in the University of Yaoundé, where he began to write poetry that dealt with social issues. He lives with his Italian wife and daughter in Rome. His poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Quaderno africano I, in the Cittadini della Poesia series (Florence: Loggia de' Lanzi, 1998). He has published a collection of verse entitled Nhindo Nero (Rome: Anterem, 1994), and the poem "Il segreto della capanna" (Rome: Lilith, 1998), with parallel text by the author himself in the Basaa language.

PIERRE NGIJOL NGIJOL, a Camerounian, holds a Ph.D. in African literature from the University of Bordeaux, France. He is a retired Professore of African languages and literaturees and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Yaounde, Cameroon. One of his greatest achievements was his pioneering work in making Basaa oral literature accessible to a wider audience by translating it into French. His initiative culminated in the collection, transcription and translation of the epic of Bon ba Hiton, as narrated by the bard Njib Njib of Matomb. In 1980, his dissertation was published in Cameroon as Les Fils de Hitong, by the Centre d'Edition et de Production Pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche (CEPER).

SOPHIA NIKOLAÏDOU was born in Thessaloniki in 1968. She studied classical literature and lives and works in Thessaloniki. She has published two short story collections, One Blonde Well Done (Athens: Kedros, 1997) and Fear Will Get to You and You'll Be Alone (Athens: Kedros, 1999) both minimalist in style, followed by a novel, The Planet Prespa. A Grand Story (Athens: Kedros, 2002), which combines elements of the detective thriller, the gothic romance, and the campus novel.

DIMITRIS NOLLAS is one of the most accomplished fiction writers in Greece. His ten books include short story collections, novellas, and The Sepulcher by the Sea, a novel that won the 1993 Greek State Prize for Fiction. A selection from his short fiction has appeared in French (Éditions Hartier).

MWENDA NTARANGWI is Director of the St. Lawrence University study abroad program in Kenya. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois and has published widely in the areas of gender, popular culture, and study abroad. His current interests include teaching and research in the social sciences in Africa. Ntarangwi's book Gender, Identity and Performance is forthcoming from Africa World Press, New Jersey.

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