Language & Identity

Romani Literature

A growing body of Romani poetry, memoir and prose.

Romani Literature
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Although long an oral culture, Roma have built a written literature over the past century — poetry, memoir and fiction in Romani and in national languages. Writers such as the poet Papusza and the artist-author Ceija Stojka gave the Roma a printed voice, including powerful testimony of the Porajmos.

This literature is central to self-representation: the Roma telling their own stories.

Sources & further reading: RomArchive (Literature section) and Wikipedia.

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