Kader abdolah biography examples
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Kader Abdolah left Iran as a political refugee, having been part of a leftist political party that opposed first the Shah and then the ayatollahs. He has lived in the Netherlands since andMy Fathers Notebook is actually a translation (by Susan Massotty) from Dutch. Despite that, Im counting it for Iran for the Read The World challenge.
The story fryst vatten narrated bygd a Iranian political flykting living in the Netherlands, who tells the story of his father, a deaf-mute carpet mender, over the period that includes the coming of the Shahs and the Islamic revolution. inom guess we have to assume that there fryst vatten an element of autobiography here, but I have no idea how much. The book combines a nostalgia for an apparently simpler time, before the politics of Iran got so messy, with a portrayal of a family, and particularly a father-son relationship, caught up in dangerous politics.
I found it weirdly insubstantial. I whipped through it in a couple of days, and found it likeable enough, but
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Abdolah, Kader
PERSONAL:
Born , in Iran; emigrated, ; immigrated to the Netherlands, Education: Studied physics in Tehran, Iran.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Netherlands.
CAREER:
Freelance writer and journalist.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Award for best debut short story collection, , for De adelaars; Dutch media prize, , for Mirza; recipient of other Dutch awards for journalism and literature.
WRITINGS:
Wat willen de Koerden zeggen, [Tehran, Iran],
De adelaars (stories; title means "The Eagles"), , De Geus (Breda, Netherlands),
De meisjes en de partizanen: Verhalen (stories; title means "The Girls and the Partisans"), De Geus (Breda, Netherlands),
De reis van de lege flessen (novel; title means "The Journey of the Empty Bottles"), De Geus (Breda, Netherlands),
Buitenspeigels: verhalen over Nederland (stories), Van Gennep (Amsterdam, Netherlands)/Novib (The Hague, Netherlands),
Mirza (collected newspaper columns), De Geus (Breda, Netherlands),
Spijkerschrift: No
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Kader Abdolah
Iranian-Dutch writer, poet and columnist
Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani (Persian: حسین سجادی قائممقامی فراهانی), better known by his pen nameKader Abdolah (Persian: قادر عبدالله) (Arak, 12 November ), is an Iranian-Dutch writer, poet and columnist. His books, written in Dutch, often contain Persian literary themes. He regularly appears on Dutch television as well.[1]
Life
[edit]Kader Abdolah is one of the descendants of Mirza Abu'l-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam, the Iranian politician during the Qajar period who was also affiliated with art and literature.
Kader Abdolah had long wished to become an author. He used his political passion to begin his career after the Islamic revolution in by writing articles in the leftist political newspapers.[2]
In the s, he wrote two novels which were published illegally because of the political constraints: What are the Kurds saying? and Kurdistan after the resistance party.
When he immigrated t