Atiq Rahimi

Atiq Rahimi ( born February 26, 1962 in Kabul ) is a French writer and documentary Afghan origin. For his first novel in French Syngué Sabour. Pierre de patience ( "Stone of Patience" ) was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2008 Rahimi.

Biography

Rahimi was born in 1962 in the Afghan capital Kabul. At Kabul University, he began a study of literature and worked as a film critic. During the civil war in Afghanistan Rahimi sought refuge in Pakistan in 1984 and fled to France. At the Sorbonne in Paris, he received his doctorate in audio- visual communication. His first novel Khakestar -o Khak ( " dust and ashes " ), written in Dari, was published in 2000 and deals with the war in Afghanistan; Rahimi 2004 filmed himself successfully. His later oeuvre also revolves around the cultural and political situation in Afghanistan, primarily to the (self-) liberation of Afghan women from their traditional roles.

Rahimi is the Afghan and French citizen and since the 2000s also culturally active again in Afghanistan.

Awards

• 2008: Prix Goncourt for Syngué Sabour. Pierre de patience

• Dust and ashes. Novel, Claassen, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-546-00314-4
• The war and love. Novel, Claassen, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-546-00323-3
• Le Retour imaginaire, P.O.L., Paris 2005
• Syngué Sabour. Pierre de patience, P.O.L., Paris 2008 German: Stone of Patience. Novel, Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-550-08786-8

• German: Cursed is Dostoyevsky. Novel, Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-550-08889-6

Film

• 2004: Earth and Ashes (including Best Director Award Bratislava 2004)
• 2012: Stone of Patience