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.