![]() ![]() Five years later his first book written in Dutch appeared, a collection of short stories with the title ✽e adelaars« (tr. After some time in Turkey he was granted political asylum in the Netherlands in 1988, where he started a new life. His pen name is the name of a friend, who was murdered. Abdolah published two clandestine novels, before he fled from Iran in 1985. He studied physics in Teheran und joined the left-wing students’ underground movement, which first fought against the authoritarian rule of the Shah, and later against Ayatollah Khomeini’s fundamentalist regime. Secretly he read the books from Western countries. ![]() Still a child he dreamed of being a famous writer, like his great-great-grandfather. ![]() Kader Abdolah, whose real name is Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, was born in Arak, Iran, in 1954. ![]()
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