Education University of Tehran Role Writer | Name Kader Abdolah Alma mater University of Teheran | |
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Books The House of the Mosque, De reis van de lege flessen, My Father's Notebook, The King, Kélilé en Demné Similar People Abdelkader Benali, Arthur Japin, Adriaan van Dis, Harry Mulisch, Herman Koch | ||
Literature as resistance a lecture by dutch iranian author kader abdolah
Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani (Persian: حسین سجادی قائممقامی فراهانی; born 12 November 1954 in Arak, Iran), better known by his pen name Kader Abdolah (Persian: قادر عبدالله), is a Persian–Dutch writer, poet and columnist. He has written books and many articles in Dutch and is known for using Persian literary themes in his Dutch works. He regularly appears on Dutch TV channels as well.
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- Literature as resistance a lecture by dutch iranian author kader abdolah
- Imitation of writer kader abdolah kpn holland s best imitator
- Career
- Books
- Honours and awards
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Imitation of writer kader abdolah kpn holland s best imitator
Career
Kader Abdolah studied physics in Arak College of science (today's Arak university) in Arak, Iran and graduated in 1977. After graduation he served his mandatory military service at Iranian Navy in Bandar Pahlavi (today's Bandar-e-Anzali) During the revolution he joined the left-wing movement opposing the Shah – and later the Khomeini – regimes. He fled to the Netherlands as a political refugee in 1988. In 2006 he was writer in residence at Leiden University. Today he lives in Delft, writing under a pseudonym composed of the names of two executed friends.
Het huis van de moskee (The House of the Mosque) catapulted Abdolah onto the Dutch bestseller lists. It was voted second best Dutch novel ever in the Netherlands. The English translation was released worldwide in January 2010.