Suleman Taufiq

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Suleman Taufiq at the Hausacher Leselenz 2017

Suleman Taufiq ( Arabic سليمان توفيق, DMG Sulaimān Taufīq ; * 1953 in Beirut ) is a German-Syrian writer , translator and editor of Arabic literature .

Life

He grew up in Damascus and attended school there. After graduating from high school in 1971, he came to Germany, fascinated by Europe, and studied philosophy and comparative literature there . Since 1986 he has lived in Aachen as a freelance writer and journalist . In 1978 he published his first volume of poetry in German. Since the late 1970s he has been studying German-language literature by foreigners in Germany and has published books on this subject.

In addition to short stories and essays, he publishes poetry and translates many Arabic works into German and numerous German poets into Arabic. He also wrote a story for children. He is also known as an author for WDR , HR , DLR Kultur and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

In 1983 he received the Walter Hasenclever Prize from the city of Aachen , and in 1990 and 2014 a working grant for writers from the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2015 he was nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize, and he also received the media prize of the professional association of paediatricians in the radio category.

Publications (selection)

  • It's Josef's birthday, short stories. Sujet Verlag, Bremen 2020
  • Foreign world, poems with b / w photos and graphics by Johanns Traub, Sujet Verlag, Bremen 2019
  • BENIMI: My Istanbul, a city reading book (edited with Sefa Inci Suvak). Edition Esefeld & Traube, Stuttgart 2017
  • I tame hope, poetry. Sujet Verlag, Bremen 2017
  • Cafe Dunya. One day in Damascus. Edition Orient, Berlin. 2015
  • My Kairo, a city reading book (edited with Jörg Armbruster ). Edition Esefeld & Traube, Stuttgart 2014
  • Huda gets a little brother, children's book, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2011.
  • Here lives the silence, poems. Schiler Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • Things that others don't see: 20 poets from the Arab world (ed. And translator). Lisan Verlag, Basel 2006.
  • Waiting. Prose, Lisan Verlag, Basel 2005.
  • What do you know about me Love poems, Edition Orient , Berlin 2004.
  • Oh how beautiful is flying. Children's book. Edition Orient, Berlin. 3. Edition. 2006.
  • Women in the Arab World (ed. And translator). dtv, Munich 2004.
  • Arabic stories (publisher and translator) dtv, Munich 2004.
  • Neue Arabische Lyrik (publisher and translator) dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-13262-0 .
  • Moon theater, poems, Verlag Donata Kinzelbach, Mainz 2001.
  • The real veil is silence (with Jutta Szostack) Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1995. New edition autumn 2001.
  • Mirror of sight, poems, Edition Orient, Meerbusch 1993.
  • We are strangers, we are strangers. Poems. Klenkes Verlag, Aachen 1978.
  • Layali. Poems. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1984.
  • The silence of language. Poems. Edition Orient, Berlin 1988.
  • In the shadow of the alley (في ظل الزقاق), Narrative. Edition Orient, Berlin 1992. 4th edition. 2015.
  • This is not the world we are looking for (Ed.) Anthology. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1983.
  • Guest at the Developed (Ed. With S.Pater) Pad Verlag, Dortmund 1985.
  • Mittenaus Mittenein, Irakische Lyrik (Ed. And translator with K. Al-Maaly and S. Weidner). * The Arabic Book, Berlin 1993.

Translations

From the Arabic

  • Hussain Al ‑ Moutawaa: I would love to be a cement mixer. Children's book German-Arabic. Sujet Verlag Bremen 2020. ISBN 978-3-96202-056-9
  • Widad Nabi: Just before thirty kiss me. Poems. Sujet Verlag Bremen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96202-021-7
  • Maya Abu Al-Hayyat: I am burning up time. Poems, bilingual (Arabic / German) Sujet Verlag Bremen 2018. ISBN 978-3-96202-025-5
  • Ahmad Rashid Thani: The sea was once mine. Poems, Lisan Verlag, Basel 2010.
  • Joumana Haddad: So that I can leave. Poems. Lisan Verlag, Basel 2006.
  • Girges Shoukry: Nobody cares what is left of us. Poems; Sabon-Verlag, St.Gallen 2004.
  • Adonis : The Tree of the Orient. Poems. Edition Orient , Berlin 1989.
  • Sargoun Boulus: An uninhabited space. Stories. Edition Orient, Meerbusch 1996.
  • Laila Al Osman: Tearing up the walls. Stories. Edition Orient, Berlin 1988. 2nd edition. 1992.
  • Alifa Rifaat: First love, last love. Stories. dtv, Munich 1992.
  • Alifa Rifaat: The last night after a thousand nights. Stories. Edition Orient, Berlin 1991.
  • Ghada al-Samman : By taxi to Beirut. Novel. Ed. Orient, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-922825-40-0 .
  • Nawal El-Saadawi: Schador. Women in Islam (co-translator). Con-Edition, Bremen 1980.

From the German

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personal data
SURNAME Taufiq, Suleman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Syrian writer, translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut