Cadre Abdolah
Kader Abdolah ( , actually Hoseyn Sadschadi Qa'emmaqami Farahani ; born December 12, 1954 in Arak , Iran ) is an Iranian writer who writes mainly in Dutch.
Life
While studying science in Tehran , he joined an underground left-wing movement that fought against the Shah's dictatorship and later against that of the Ayatollah . He wrote for an illegal magazine and published his first stories under the pseudonym Kader Abdolah, which is made up of the names of two murdered friends. In 1985 Abdolah had to flee Iran, spent two years in Turkey and in 1988 was invited by the United Nations to the Netherlands , where he first lived in an asylum seekers' home in Apeldoorn and later in a house assigned to him in Zwolle . Since the age of 12, Abdolah has been reading Western literature and listening to Western radio stations forbidden in order to emulate his great-grandfather Qa'em Maqam Farahani , one of the most famous writers in Iran / Persia. Abdolah writes poetry, short stories and novels and is currently working on a new translation of the Koran. Under the pseudonym Mirza (pers. = "Chronicler") he writes a weekly column for the newspaper De Volkskrant .
Literary work
- 1993 - De adelaars ( short stories)
- 1995 - De meisjes en de partizanen ( short stories)
- 1997 - The rice van de lege flessen . (German: The journey of empty bottles. Roman . Fest, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8286-0060-3 ).
- 1998 - Mirza (columns)
- 2000 - Spijkerschrift . (German: The secret script: the notes of Agha Akbar. Roman . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-93512-6 ).
- 2001 - De koffer (Overijssels boekenweek present)
- 2001 - Een tuin in zee (columns)
- 2002 - Kélilé en Demné (translations of Persian stories)
- 2002 - Sophia's droë vrugte (novel)
- 2003 - Portretten en een oude droom . (German: Dawuds Traum. Roman . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-93759-5 ).
- 2003 - Karavaan (columns)
- 2005 - Het huis van de moskee . (German: The house at the mosque. Roman . Claassen Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-546-00421-3 ).
- 2008 - De boodschapper en de Koran . (German: Mohammad, the Prophet. Roman . Claassen Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-546-00451-0 ).
- 2011 - De Koning . (German: Der König. Roman . Ullstein, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-550-08888-9 ).
- 2011 - De kraai ( Boekenweek present ). (German: Die Krähe. Novelle . Arche Literatur Verlag, Zurich / Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7160-2718-9 ).
- 2012 - Zeesla en de lepels van Alice ( short stories)
- 2014 - Papegaai vloog over de IJssel (roman)
Prices
- Gouden Ezelsoor (best-selling debut) in 1994 for De adelaars .
- Charlotte Köhler scholarship 1995 for De meisjes en de partizanen .
- ASN-ADO-Mediaprijs 1997 for Mirza .
- Mundial Award for his services in the field of international understanding, freedom and security.
- Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion on Queen's Day 2000 for his commitment to literature, international understanding and freedom.
- E. du Perronprijs 2001 for The Secret Scripture .
Web links
- Literature by and about Kader Abdolah in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Kader Abdolah ( memento of August 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Literature in Context , a multilingual project of the University of Vienna (in German , archived from the original ).
- Short biography and reviews of works by Kader Abdolah at perlentaucher.de
- Kader Abdolah , at the international literature festival berlin , 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abdolah, squad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ghaemmaghami Farahani, Hossein Sadjadi (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arak , Iran |