Slavs and Tatars presents Egana Djabbarova

Egana Djabbarova, born in 1992 into an Azerbaijani family in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a poet, essayist and scholar. She is the author of several poetry collections and three novels, including My Dreadful Body (2026). Her work has appeared internationally in literary journals and anthologies, and she has taken part in literary events and academic programmes in Europe, Asia and the United States. She has been longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature, is a recipient of the Hamburg Literature Prize 2025, and is an Artist Protection Fund Fellow at the University of Hamburg (2026–2027). Since 2024, she has lived in exile in Germany.

Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions around the world, including the Vienna Secession; MoMA, New York; Salt, Istanbul; and the Albertinum, Dresden. Its practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications and lecture-performances. Slavs and Tatars have published extensively on multilingualism and alphabet politics, including Azbuka Strikes Back (2024), Wripped Scripped (2018) and Khhhhhhh (2012).