Egana Djabbarova

Egana Djabbarova was born and raised in an Azerbaijani family in Yekaterinburg, Russia. She is a poet, writer, and scholar holding a PhD in Philology. She was shortlisted for the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize in 2019 and became the recipient of the Hamburg Book Prize for “Book of the Year” in 2025. In 2024, she was forced to leave Russia due to her anti-war stance and her work in the fields of decolonial and feminist studies.