Riverbend

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Riverbend (in English "river bend") is the pseudonym of the author of the blog Baghdad Burning , on which she has been reporting on Baghdad and Iraq after the second Iraq war since August 17, 2003 .

To person

Riverbend's identity is carefully kept secret, but the blog entries suggest that she is an unmarried Iraqi woman in her twenties and from a mixed Shiite - Sunni family. She lives with her parents and brother in a middle-class residential area in northern Baghdad. Before the outbreak of war, she worked as a programmer for an Iraqi IT company. Her excellent English and blog entries suggest that she will be abroad for a long time. Your entries contain political statements as well as insights into the life of occupied Iraq.

On April 26, 2007, Riverbend announced that she and her family would be leaving Iraq because of the unsafe situation in Baghdad and the ongoing ethnic violence. On September 6, 2007, she reported on her blog that she and her family had safely reached Syria.

On April 9, 2013 Riverbend will be in touch with a review of the past ten years. She has since left Syria and is in another Arab country.

Adaptations of the blog

Riverbends weblog entries were in German as Bagdad Burning. A diary published. In March 2005, a play related to the blog was performed at the West End Theater in New York . The English print version of the blog received the third prize of the Lettre Ullyses Award in 2005 . In 2006 Hörverlag published an audio book version read by Sophie Rois . A German stage version of the text was premiered by the Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal in October 2006. The Austrian premiere with Katharina Vötter took place in January 2009 in the Vienna Volkstheater . A radio play version edited by Peter and John von Düffel and directed by Ulrich Lampen was first broadcast on July 10, 2009 by Nordwestradio .

In 2006 the book was also included in the nomination list for the Samuel Johnson Prize .

literature

  • Riverbend: Baghdad Burning. A diary . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 2007. ISBN 3-499-62244-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/authors05/winners2005.html
  2. ↑ Alexander Krabbe: Iraqi Blogger Nominated for BBC Prize , OhmyNews International. March 30, 2006. Retrieved February 4, 2009. 

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personal data
SURNAME Riverbend
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pseudonym of the author of the Baghdad Burning blog
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century