 | Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk in northern Iraq. He studied English Literature at Baghdad University, earning a B.A. degree. He continued his studies at Leipzig University in Germany and received a doctorate in Journalism. He edited a number of literary magazines and newspapers in Iraq and abroad, and founded Poetry Magazine 69 which was banned after the fourth number. His poetry and criticism have been published in leading Arab literary magazines since the early sixties. He was arrested many times in Iraq for his political and cultural activities, and spent three years in jail. He has published seven volumes of poetry, six novels, one volume of short stories, two volumes of criticism and many works of translation from English and German. He left Iraq in 1977 and now lives in Berlin where he works as a free lance writer. His poetry has been translated into many European and Oriental languages. |
