Narmin Kamal
Narmin Kamal (b 1981, Azerbaijan, Baku) is a writer and researcher of philosophy.
Education
Graduated from Baku State University, faculty of Philosophy. Got her Master degree on Philosophical IDeaS in Shamanism. Mainly her scientific publications are on 20-th century European Philosophy. 2007 - got her PhD. "Umberto Eco and Philosophy of Postmodernism" - her PhD thesis was published in 2008 in Baku. Researched the subject of her thesis in Spain (University of Navarra) and in Italy (Bologna University) with a European supervisor.
Creativity
She is one of the founders of the Alatoran movement, the Foundation of Independent Writers, in contemporary Azerbaijani literature. Translated academic texts and important works into Azerbaijani, including works by Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Umberto Eco. These were the first translations of these authors into Azerbaijani. She writes poems, prose and journalistic as well as scientific texts primarily on social questions. Her poems published in Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Germany, French and published in different journals and almanacs of South Caucasus and Europe with european authors. Her first novel “Times Roman Az Lat” was published in 2006 in Baku. In 2008 she was one of twelve European writers invited to write an essay for the young.euro.connect festival. She was among the six invited to the readings in Berlin and Munich, her essay "Europe-united fraternity?" and travel essay were later selected for the anthology "YOUNG EURO CONNECT 2005-2008: PUBLIKATION AUSGEWÄHLTER ESSAYS".