Hussain al-Mozany
was born in al-Amarah, Iraq, in 1954 and grew up in Baghdad. He left Iraq in 1978 for Lebanon. Since 1980 he has lived in Münster, where he studied German Literature and then Arabic Literature in Cairo. He has published two collections of short stories and two novels. He translates German authors into Arabic and now writes his novels in German, while working as a journalist. He lives in Berlin.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal No 17 Summer 2003
Banipal No 4 Spring 1999
Banipal No 22 Spring 2005
Banipal No 44 12 Women Writers
Banipal No 37 IRAQI AUTHORS
Latest News
23/04/2013Saud Alsanousi from Kuwait wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
[read more]22/04/2013
Moroccan painter novelist Mahi Binebine launches his novel Horses of God in the UK
[read more]19/04/2013
Marina Warner wins 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
[read more]10/04/2013
Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah shortlisted for International Griffin Poetry Prize
[read more]04/04/2013
FAROUK ABDEL WAHAB
passed away 3 April 2013
20/03/2013
A Decade of Despair by Ahmad Saadawi published in the New York Times
[read more][read all news stories]