Fadhil Al Azzawi

Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Fadhil Al Azzawi (third from right) at the Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh on January 14, 2016 at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.
Fadhil Al Azzawi (third from right) at the Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh on January 14, 2016 at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.
Native name
فاضل العزاوي
Born1940
Kirkuk, Kingdom of Iraq
(present-day Iraq)
Occupationpoet, writer, translator and journalist
NationalityIraqi
EducationBA (English Literature), Baghdad University, PhD (Leipzig University)

Fadhil Al Azzawi (Arabic: فاضل العزاوي; born 1940) is a prominent Iraqi poet and writer.[1] He has published ten volumes of poetry, six novels, three books of criticism and memoir, and several translations of German literary works. He participated in Iraq's avant-garde Sixties Generation, and his early controversial work was lauded with great enthusiasm.

  1. ^ "Fadhil Al-Azzawi author bio". Archived from the original on 2007-09-01. Retrieved 2007-08-30.