Farhad Showghi
Farhad Showghi (born June 4, 1961 in Prague ) is a German doctor and writer of Persian origin.
Life
Showghi was born in Prague to a German mother and an Iranian father. He lived in Czechoslovakia until he was two and then in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1966 . He then moved to Iran with his father . There he attended a German school . In 1978 he returned to Germany, where he studied medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1992 he received his doctorate in medicine. Showghi has lived in Hamburg since 1989 , where he works as a psychiatrist .
Showghi is the author of prose texts and poems in German and translates from Persian .
The volume of poetry End of the City Map , Burning Deck, published in the USA in 2014 , was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2015 in a translation by Rosmarie Waldrop .
Showghi is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Free Academy of the Arts .
Works
- The second is a habitable province , Erlangen 1987
- Disease and treatment knowledge in patients with endogenous psychoses , Erlangen 1992
- The walnut mask through which I ate my dream , Hamburg 1998
- Heimaten , Göttingen 2001 (together with Lutz Seiler and Anne Duden )
- End of the city map , Basel 2003
- The great distance , Weil am Rhein 2008
- In time spent , kookbooks , Berlin 2014
- Cloud flight plays the ultimate test , kookbooks, Berlin 2017
Translations
- Ahmad Schamlou : Blaues Lied , Basel 2002
Awards
- 1988: Culture Prize for Literature from the City of Erlangen
- 1992 and 2002: Prize for Literature from the City of Hamburg
- 1995: Prize for literary translations from the City of Hamburg
- 1998: Literature Prize of the Irmgard Heilmann Foundation ,
- 2000: Scholarship from the Lower Saxony Foundation
- 2003 3sat Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt
- 2006 Norbert Conrad Kaser Poetry Prize
- 2018 Peter Huchel Prize for Cloud Flight plays an acid test
Web links
- Literature by and about Farhad Showghi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Farhad Showghi at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- Short biography and reviews of works by Farhad Showghi at perlentaucher.de
- http://www.engeler.de/showghi.html
- http://www.poetenfest-erlangen.de/archiv/2003/personenseiten/showghi.htm
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SURNAME | Showghi, Farhad |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian-German doctor and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th June 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |