Osama Esber

Osama Esber (* 1963 in Latakia ) is a Syrian poet, translator, journalist and publisher.

Life

Osama Esber was born in Syria in 1963 and published his first poems in literary magazines while still at school. He studied English literature in Latakia and Damascus . Esber works as a writer, but also as a freelance translator of literary works as well as political and philosophical books. He also works as a journalist for Radio Damascus, particularly as an art critic. His first volume of poetry " šāšāt al-tarīkh " ( Canvases of History) was published in 1994. His second volume of poetry " mīthāq al-mawğ " (The Chord of Waves) followed in 1995 . In 2003 he founded his own publishing house.

In 2004 he was a town clerk in Cologne as part of the Midad project (organized by the Goethe Institute and the network of literary houses) . Osama Esber, who lives in Damascus, was in exchange for the Cologne author Ulla Lenze , who lived and wrote in Damascus for a month, from September 7, 2004 to October 7, 2004 and explored the city from the Hotel Crowne Plaza.

Quotes

• "It is more than astonishing that the Romans always left their traces in Syria as well as in Germany." (Osama Esber October 15, 2004)

Web links

• Internet diary of the city clerk of Cologne
• "" Of course: the church bells! "Town clerk Osama Esber"
• Poem in German by Osama Esber