Fadhil al-Azzawi

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Fadhil al-Azzawi , Arabic فاضل العزاوي(* 1940 in Kirkuk ) is an Iraqi writer who has lived in Germany since the 1970s.

life and work

al-Azzawi comes from a Sunni family. At the age of 18 he joined the Communist Party, which he left after four years. He studied English literature at the University of Baghdad . In 1977 he emigrated to Leipzig in the GDR and has since worked as a foreign correspondent for the Arab media. He did his doctorate in journalism in Leipzig. Today he lives with his wife in Berlin-Lichtenberg . According to the Berliner Morgenpost , he is “one of the most important contemporary authors who write in Arabic”.

al-Azzawi translated Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities into Arabic.

Ines Wilke writes about The Last of the Angels (1992, German 2014) in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : "The diabolical laughter that echoes through his novel The Last of the Angels is a sharp weapon."

Works (selection)

  • آخر الملائكة. 1992
  • At a magical festival: poems . From the Arabic. Verl. The Arab. Book, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86093-185-7 .

Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ines Wilke: "Time does not bury the truth", in Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 6, 2014, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Azzawi, Fadhil al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkuk