Education
Kader Abdolah studied physics in Tehran and graduated in 1977.
columnist novelist writer poet
Kader Abdolah studied physics in Tehran and graduated in 1977.
He has written books and many articles in Dutch and is known for using Persian literary themes in his Dutch works. He regularly appears on Dutch television channels as well. Kader Abdolah is the pen name of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani (Persian: حسین سجادی قائممقامی فراهانی).
In the same year he joined the left-wing movement opposing the Shah – and later the Khomeini – regimes.
He fled to the Netherlands as a political refugee in 1988. In 2006 he was writer in residence at Leiden University.
Today he lives in Delft, writing under a pseudonym composed of the names of two executed friends. Het huis van de moskee (The House of the Mosque) catapulted Abdolah onto the Dutch bestseller lists.
lieutenant was voted second best Dutch novel ever in the Netherlands.
The English translation was released worldwide in January 2010.
Gouden Ezelsoor (Golden Dog Ear) for the short story collection De adelaars – his best selling debut of 1993, awarded in 1994. E. du Perron Prize of 2000 for his novel Spijkerschrift. Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Dutch: Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw) in 2000. Knight in the French Order of Arts and Literature (French: Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) in 2008. Honorary doctor at the University of Groningen in 2009. Invitation to write the 2011 Boekenweekgeschenk, a gift (De Kraai) to buyers of Dutch books during the Boekenweek.
