Farhad Showghi

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Farhad Showghi reads at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014 at the event Part of the Movement

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

Awards

Web links

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