Fadhil Al Azzawi
Fadhil Al-Azzawi | |
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Fadhil Al Azzawi (third from right) at the Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh on January 14, 2016 at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. | |
| Native name | فاضل العزاوي |
| Born | 1940 Kirkuk, Kingdom of Iraq (present-day Iraq) |
| Occupation | poet, writer, translator and journalist |
| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Education | BA (English Literature), Baghdad University, PhD (Leipzig University) |
Fadhil Al Azzawi (Arabic: فاضل العزاوي; born 1940) is a prominent Iraqi poet and writer. He has published ten volumes of poetry, six novels, three books of criticism and memoir, and several translations of German literary works. He participated in Iraq's avant-garde Sixties Generation, and his early controversial work was lauded with great enthusiasm.