Najem Wali

Najem Wali was born in the Iraqi city of Basra in 1956. He studied German literature at the University of Baghdad. In 1980, when the Iran-Iraq War broke out, he chose exile. Wali studied German studies at Hamburg University and Spanish literature at the University Complutense of Madrid. The author and journalist worked in Hamburg, where his jobs including working as a correspondent for the Arabic-language daily newspaper »Al-Hayat«. Many of his novels and short stories have been translated into foreign languages. Najem Wali lives and works as freelance author in Berlin.

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Der Krieg im Vergnügungsviertel 
Persopolis
Hamburg, 1989
[Ü: Jürgen Paul]

Hier in dieser fernen Stadt 
Galgenberg
Hamburg, 1990
[Ü: Thomas Schade]

Une ville nommée Komeit
L’Esprit des péninsules
Paris, 1999
[Ü: Marianne Weiss]

Die Reise nach Tell al-Lahm 
Hanser
München, 2004
[Ü: Imke Ahlf-Wien]

Jussifs Gesichter
Hanser
München, 2008

Reise in das Herz
des Feindes
Hanser
München, 2009
[Ü: Imke Ahlf-Wien]

Joseph’s picture
PGW
San Francisco, Denver, 2009

Übersetzer: Imke Ahlf-Wien, Jürgen Paul, Thomas Schade, Marianne Weiss