Sherko Fatah
Sherko Fatah was born in Berlin in 1964 as the son of an Iraqi father and a German mother. He spent his early childhood in East Germany and also spent longer periods of time in Iraq. In 1975 his family moved to West Germany. Sherko Fatah studied philosophy and art history in Berlin, where he currently lives as a writer.
Photo: © Jens Oellermann
to the book:
The Dark Ship
Awards:
- 1999 Berlin Literary Colloquium Stipend
- 2001 Aspekte Literature Prize
- 2002 Special German Critic’s Award for the Most Notable Prose Debut
- 2003 Alfred Döblin Stipend
- 2007 Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile
- 2008 Nomination for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
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