Kader Abdolah
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Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani (born 12 December 1954, Arak, Iran), an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.
[edit] Career
He studied physics in Arak College of Science (Arak) and fled the country as a political refugee in 1988. Today he lives in Delft, writing under a pseudonym made up of the names of two murdered friends. "Het huis van de moskee" ("The House of the Mosque", not yet translated into English) catapulted Abdolah onto the Dutch bestseller lists.
[edit] Books
- 1993 - De adelaars
- 1995 - De meisjes en de partizanen
- 1997 - De reis van de lege flessen
- 1998 - Mirza
- 2000 - Spijkerschrift (English trans.2006 "My Father's Notebook")
- 2001 - De koffer
- 2001 - Een tuin in zee
- 2002 - Kélilé en Demné
- 2002 - Sophia's droë vrugte
- 2003 - Portretten en een oude droom
- 2003 - Karavaan
- 2005 - Het huis van de moskee
- 2008 - De boodschapper en de Koran (Two volumes sold together: De boodschapper (The messenger) - about the life of the prophet Mohammed and Abdolahs' Dutch translation of the Koran)
