Psaumes

by Said

Auteur de ces Psaumes , SAID s'inscrit dans une triple tradition : la Bible, la poésie persane et la poésie allemande. Il y interpelle Dieu, un dieu, tour à tour père, frère, ami, voisin, confident, dans de courtes prières poétiques - celles d'un incrédule qui croit en l'utopie d'un monde qui ne doit pas rester comme il est. Iranien exilé en Allemagne depuis 1965, SAID y est devenu l'un de ses plus grands poètes vivants.

112 pages, Paperback

Published March 29, 2013

About the author

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. In 2004, SAID received German citizenship. He has received several awards for his literary work and for his commitment to politically persecuted people, including the Premio Letterario Internazionale “Jean Monnet” and the German PEN Center’s Hermann-Kesten Medal. He served as president of the German PEN Center and director of the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN.
In May 2021, SAID died of a heart attack at the age of 73.