Hussain al-Mozany

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Hussain Al-Mozany (born January 1, 1954 in Amarah , Iraq ; died December 7, 2016 in Berlin ) was an Iraqi writer who had lived in Germany since 1980.

Life

Hussain Al-Mozany, who came from southern Iraq, grew up in Baghdad . In 1978 he left Iraq and went to Lebanon as a journalist ; In 1980 he went into exile in the Federal Republic of Germany . He studied Arabic , Islamic , German and journalism at the University of Münster . From 1991 to 1993 he stayed in Cairo for research purposes ; he then completed his studies with a thesis on the Egyptian author Nagib Mahfuz . Al-Mozany has two children and lived with his partner in Berlin until his death .

Hussain Al-Mozany wrote as a journalist in Arabic and also translated modern German authors from German into Arabic. During his stay in Germany he started to write his own works in German . His debut novel “Der Marschländer” is the literary processing of his flight from Iraq; "Mansur or The Scent of the West" is a grotesque with picaresque features about life in Iraq and the German-Arab relationship. "The butcher's confession" is a psychological thriller set in Cologne and Cairo, which is about how things are done in Cologne and how business is done in Cologne and why someone in Cairo is looking for a bride.

In 2003, Hussain Al-Mozany received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize . In 2009 he took over the Chamisso poetics lectureship at the TU Dresden .

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  1. ↑ Hussain Al-Mozany has died , buchmarkt.de, December 12, 2016, accessed on December 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mozany, Hussain al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mozany, Hussain Al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Amarah , Iraq
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2016
Place of death Berlin