Kader Abdolah

Abdolah squad, actually Husayn Sadschadi Qa'emmaqami Farahani ( born December 12, 1954 in Arak, Iran) is an Iranian writer.

Life

During his scientific studies in Tehran, he joined a left-wing underground movement that fought against the Shah's dictatorship and later against the ayatollahs. He wrote for an illegal magazine and published his first short stories under the pseudonym Abdolah squad, made ​​up of the names of two murdered friends. 1985 had to flee Abdolah from Iran, spent two years in Turkey and in 1988 invited by the United Nations in the Netherlands, where he later lived first in an asylum center in Apeldoorn in an assigned house in Zwolle. Since the age of 12 Abdolah reading Western literature and listening to illegally Western radio stations to emulate his great-grandfather Qa'em Maqam Farahani, who is one of the most famous writers of the Iran / Persia. Abdolah writes poetry, short stories and novels and is currently working on a new translation of the Koran. Under the pseudonym of Mirza ( pers = " chronicler " ), he writes a weekly column for the newspaper De Volkskrant.

Literary work

Prices

• Gouden Ezelsoor ( best-selling debut ) 1994 De Adelaars.
• Charlotte Köhler Scholarship 1995 for De meisjes en de Partizanen.
• ASN - ADO Mediaprijs 1997 Mirza.
• Mundial Award for his contributions to the field of international understanding, freedom and security.
• To the Queen's 2000 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion beaten for his commitment to literature, international understanding and freedom.
• E. du Perronprijs 2001 for The Secret Scripture.