Biographies: Fadel Ezzawy - Writer

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An Iraqi poet and author who was born in the city of Kirkuk in Iraq in 1940. He obtained a BA in English and a doctorate from Leipzig University in Germany with a thesis on the main problems of the development of Arab culture. He worked in the literary press in Iraq before his immigration. He contributed to the publication of the magazine Poetry 69 in 1969. He wrote "The Poetic Manifesto", which caused a cultural uproar about the concept of the new Arabic poetry. Among his books are "Peace, O Wave... Peace, O Sea" (1974), "Travels" (1976), and "Ascending to the Spring" (1993). He wrote several novels and short story collections. He tackled the experience of the sixties in the book "The Living Soul". He contributed to the establishment of the famous Kirkuk Group, which included Sargon Boulus, Moayed Al Rawi, Salah Faiq, and Jean Dammu and worked on establishing prose poems. He is known for the movie The Fifth Castle (1979).

• 2 November 2021
• Christina Aziz