SAID, whose real name was Said Mirhadi, published only under his first name for security reasons. He was born in Tehran in 1947 and lived in Munich since 1965. He studied political science in Munich. …
Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.
