Saghar was born in Kabul in 1977 and completed her primary and secondary schooling in Afghanistan. She left in 2000 and settled in Germany, where she trained in early childhood education and has worked in childcare and as a certified interpreter. She has also continued studying Persian literature.
For more than two decades, Saghar has worked for Afghan women’s rights alongside her writing. Love, grief, exile, identity and resistance recur in her poetry. Some of her poems have been translated into French for an anthology titled Look at Me.
In an interview with Gozaare, Saghar recalled how an encounter with an Arabic translator brought her poems to a new audience. He offered to translate some of her work. She said she had never imagined how many doors that conversation would open. A separate book of literary criticism on her poetry was subsequently published in the Arab world.
This is an English introduction to the full Gozaare interview, available in the German edition.