Bakhtyar Ali

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Bachtyar Ali at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Bakhtyar Ali Muhammed ( Kurdish بەختیار عەلی, also Bakhtiyar Ali or Bakhtyar Ali , born August 8, 1966 in Sulaimaniyya in Iraqi Kurdistan ) is a writer . He works as a prose author , poet and literary critic and lives in Cologne .

Life

Bakhtyar Ali came into conflict with Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in the 1980s . He was injured in 1983 in a student protest against the Ba'ath Party ; then he broke off his geology studies and devoted himself to literature. His first volume of poetry Gunah w Karnaval (Sin and Carnival) was published in 1992. He has lived in Germany since the mid-1990s. Bachtyar Ali Muhammed speaks Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, German and English.

By translating the novel The Last Pomegranate , the author made his breakthrough in German-language literature. This work is considered to be the first Kurdish-Iraqi novel to be translated into German; it was translated into German by Rawezh Salim and Ute Canteral-Lang. The novel was listed at number 7 on the SWR best list in July / August 2016 and at number 1 on the LITPROM best list in autumn 2016.

Awards

Works

His novels are assigned to magical realism . A selection:

  • Duwahamin Henari Dunya. 2002.
  • Ghezelnus u Baxekani Xeyal. 2008 (English: I Stared at the Night of the City. 2016).
  • Schar i Moseqare Speakan.
  • Ewaray Parwana 1997.
    • German Perwana's evening . From Kurdish ( Sorani ) by Ute Cantera-Lang and Rawezh Salim. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-293-00553-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bachtyar Ali on munzinger.de, accessed on September 11, 2017; 1960 is often mentioned as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Works by Bachtyar Ali on unionsverlag.com, accessed on September 9, 2017
  3. ^ Ruhrnachrichten: Nelly Sachs Prize. Poetry of reconciliation. Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ Book review by Stefan Weidner: How could such an author remain undiscovered for so long? In: sueddeutsche.de . June 8, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 5, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Unionsverlag - Ute Cantera-Lang. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .
  6. ↑ RMA Digital GmbH: E-Paper Der Grazer - 18/2016. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Best list: The Litprom world receiver autumn 2016 - CulturMag . In: CulturMag . September 1, 2016 ( culturmag.de [accessed July 5, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Ali, Bakhtyar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ali, Bakhtiyar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulaimaniyya , Iraq