Khalid Al-Maaly

Khalid Al -Maaly (Arabic خالد المعالي Khalid al - Ma ʿ ali, DMG Halid al - Ma ʿ Alī; born April 15, 1956 in al- Samawa, Iraq ) is a German writer.

Life

Khalid Al -Maaly comes from a Bedouin family. In 1978, he passed the matriculation examination; In 1979 he left after coming to power of Saddam Hussein 's Iraqi homeland and fled over Lebanon to France. In 1980, he applied for in the Federal Republic of Germany for political asylum; In 1983 he was recognized as a political refugee; he is a German citizen since 1996. Al -Maaly now lives in Cologne, where he directs the he founded Al- Kamel Verlag and the Arab literary magazine Uyoun out there.

Al -Maaly had already published in the seventies poems in various Arab literary magazines; his first book of poems was published in Arabic in 1978. Nowadays he writes poetry and prose both in German and in Arabic. He is also a translator from English into Arabic and from Arabic into German works.

Khalid Al -Maaly is a member of the Association of German writers. He was, inter alia, the 1988 Rolf -Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship, 1990 Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1995 a scholarship from the artist village Schöppingen.

Works in German language

  • Thoughts about the Lukewarm. Prose. Dipa -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7638-0513-3.
  • Midnight Desert ( Publication = P No 1 Vol 53). Library of the province, among other things, inter alia Weitra 1990, ISBN 3-900878-53-6.
  • Action of the larynx. Poems. Edition fundamentals, Cologne 1992.
  • The half- His ( = Alinea. Vol. 4, ZDB - ID 2480264-5 ). Edition fundamentals, Cologne 1993
  • Imagination of reeds. Poems. Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-86093-039-7.
  • Landing on the mainland. Poems. Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86093-156-3.
  • With Mona Naggar: Encyclopedia of Arab authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Palmyra, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-930378-55-8.

Editorship

  • Mittenaus, mittenein. Poetry from Iraq. Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86093-038-9.
  • Between charm and character. Modern Arabic Poetry from 1945 to the present. Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86093-242- X.
  • After the last sky. New Palestinian poetry. Anthology. Gutke, Cologne et al 2003, ISBN 3-928872-37-0.
  • The Arab world between tradition and modernity. Palmyra, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-930378-56-6.
  • Mahmoud Darwish: Why did you leave the horse alone. Poems. Arabic - German. Schiler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89930-244-3.
  • Return from the war. An anthology of contemporary poetry from Iraq. Gutke, Cologne et al 2006, ISBN 3-928872-40-0.

Translations from Arabic into German

  • Abdulwahab Al- Bayyati: Aisha garden. Selected poems. Arabic - German. Schiler, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89930-243-5.
  • Translated together with Stefan Weidner: Sargon Boulus: Witnesses on the shore. Poems. Arabic - German. Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86093-157-1.
  • Translated along with Heribert Becker: Mahmoud Darwish: Less roses. Poems. Arabic - German. Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86093-101-6.
  • Translated along with Heribert Becker: uncertainty al - Haj: the love and the Wolf, the love and the others. Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86093-176-8.
  • Saif al- Rahbi: The howling of the wolves. Selected poems. Schiler, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89930-134-2.
  • Translated together with Stefan Weidner: Badr Shakir al- Sayyab: The rain anthem and other poems. ( Arabic - German ). Publisher The Arabic book, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86093-048-6.
  • Translated along with Heribert Becker: Saadi Youssef: Far from the first heaven. Selected poems. Arabic - German. Schiler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89930-045-9.
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