Salah Abdel Latif
was born in Baghdad in 1950. He has published two collections of short stories (1984 and 1993). In 2000 he published a novel, Nujoum Adamiyya [Human Stars] in Tangiers. He left Iraq in 1975, spending four years teaching in Algeria and Morocco. Since 1979 he has lived and worked in Köln, Germany. He founded the cultural magazine Tafoqt [Tamerzigh for Sun].
Latest News
14/07/2010Khalid Albudoor, Khulood al-Mu’alla and Nujoom al-Ghanem, three successful modern Emirati poets, have their first London reading with specially commissioned English translations of their works
[read more]19/04/2010
A Literary Translation Centre opens at the 2010 London Book Fair
[read more]19/04/2010
The Internet and Arab Literature, and publishing English literary translations from Arabic
[read more]17/04/2010
For free culture and tolerance – the literary website www.kikah.com celebrates its 8th birthday
[read more]15/04/2010
The BEIRUT39 activities start today, and their Anthology is launched
[read more]11/04/2010
Banipal 37 – IRAQI AUTHORS will be out very soon – featuring a new generation of Iraqi fiction writers and poets
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