Atiq Rahimi
Atiq Rahimi (born February 26, 1962 in Kabul ) is a French writer and documentary filmmaker of Afghan origin. Syngué Sabour for his first French-language novel. In 2008, Rahimi received the Prix Goncourt for Pierre de patience ("Patience Stone") .
biography
Rahimi was born in the Afghan capital Kabul in 1962. He began to study literature at the University of Kabul and worked as a film critic. Rahimi sought refuge in Pakistan during the civil war in Afghanistan and fled to France in 1984. He received his PhD in audio-visual communication from the Sorbonne in Paris . His first novel Khâkestar-o-khâk (“Earth and Ashes”), written in Dari , was published in 2000 and deals with the war in Afghanistan; Rahimi also successfully filmed it himself in 2004. His other oeuvre also revolves around the cultural and political conditions in Afghanistan, primarily around the (self) liberation of women in Afghanistan from their traditional role.
Rahimi is an Afghan and French citizen and has been culturally active in Afghanistan again since the 2000s.
Awards
- 2008: Prix Goncourt for Syngué Sabour. Pierre de patience
- 2020: Glass bear of the Berlinale 2020 in the Generation 14plus section for the film Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile)
Books
- Earth and ashes. Roman , Claassen, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-546-00314-4
- The war and love. Roman , Claassen, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-546-00323-3
- Le Retour imaginaire , POL, Paris 2005
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Syngué Sabour. Pierre de patience , POL, Paris 2008
- German: stone of patience. Roman , Ullstein, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-550-08786-8
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Maudit soit Dostoïevski , POL, Paris 2011
- German: Curse Dostoyevsky. Roman , Ullstein, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-550-08889-6
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La ballade du calame. Portrait intimate , éd. L'Iconoclaste, Paris 2015
- German: home ballad . Translated from the French by Waltraud Schwarze. Ullstein, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-550-08139-2
Filmography
- 2004: Earth and Ashes
- 2012: the stone of patience
- 2019: Notre-Dame du Nil
Web links
- Literature by and about Atiq Rahimi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Atiq Rahimi at perlentaucher.de
- Atiq Rahimi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Atiq Rahimi at ullsteinbuchverlage.de
- Atiq Rahimi's "Stone of Patience": Portrait of a brave on Qantara.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Spiegel Online : "Goncourt Prize for Atiq Rahimi" , November 10, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rahimi, Atiq |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and documentary filmmaker of Afghan origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabul |