Ahmed Saadawi
Ahmed Saadawi (born 1973 , Arabic أحمد سعداوي) is an Iraqi author.
Life
Saadawi works as a documentary filmmaker and writer in Baghdad . He is the author of three novels and a volume of poetry. He has already received various literary awards and was selected for Beirut39 at the 2010 Hay Literature Festival in Beirut , as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 40.
For his novel Frankenstein in Baghdad , Saadawi received the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014 , which is endowed with USD 50,000 and guarantees the author a translation of his novel into English. The award was presented to him at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in Abu Dhabi . The translation was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 .
The protagonist of his adaptation of the Frankenstein fabric is Hadi al-Attag, an antique dealer in Baghdad, who uses the body parts of victims of the bombings to construct a body that unexpectedly comes to life and begins to take revenge for the original bearer of each body part.
Works
(the book titles appear here as translated into English)
- Anniversary of Bad Songs . Poetry. 2000
- The beautiful country . Novel. 2004
- Indeed He Dreams or Plays or Dies . Novel. 2008
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Frankenstein in Baghdad . Novel. Al Kamel, 2013
- Frankenstein in Baghdad. A novel . Jonathan Wright in Romanian. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 2018
- Frankenstein in Baghdad . From the Arabic by Hartmut Fähndrich. Hamburg: Association A, 2019 ISBN 978-3-86241-472-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mona Naggar: The Book of the Hour , NZZ , May 3, 2014, p. 22
- ↑ a b Ahmed Saadawi ( Memento from April 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), at International Prize for Arabic Fiction
- ^ Sayed Mahmoud: Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi wins Arabic Booker 2014 , at al-Ahram , April 29, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saadawi, Ahmed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |