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Sherko Fatah

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Sherko Fatah


Born
in West-Berlin, Germany
November 28, 1964

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Sherko Fatah was born in Berlin in 1964 as the son of an Iraqi father and a German mother. He spent his early childhood in East Germany and also spent longer periods of time in Iraq. In 1975 his family moved to West Germany. Sherko Fatah studied philosophy and art history in Berlin, where he currently lives as a writer.

Awards:

* 1999 Berlin Literary Colloquium Stipend
* 2001 Aspekte Literature Prize
* 2002 Special German Critic’s Award for the Most Notable Prose Debut
* 2003 Alfred Döblin Stipend
* 2007 Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile
* 2008 Nomination for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.13 · 496 ratings · 91 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
Literature from the Axis of...
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3.74 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
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Der große Wunsch
3.25 avg rating — 104 ratings — 2 editions
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Das dunkle Schiff
3.37 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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في أرض على الحدود
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العم الصغير
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3.04 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Der letzte Ort
3.10 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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Ein weißes Land
3.28 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Schwarzer September
3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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Donnie
2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Un voleur de Bagdad
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