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Ahmed Saadawi


Born
Baghdad, Iraq
Twitter
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Genre
Fiction, Poetry


Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary film maker. He won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for Frankenstein in Baghdad. He lives and works in Baghdad.

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Average rating: 3.57 · 15,002 ratings · 2,527 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Frankenstein in Baghdad
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3.57 avg rating — 15,060 ratings — published 2013 — 55 editions
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Baghdad Noir
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3.74 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions
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الشهر الثالث عشر ـ the 13th...
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Frankenstein em Bagdade
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“Because I'm made up of body parts of people from diverse backgrounds - ethnicities, tribes, races and social classes - I represent the impossible mix that never was achieved in the past. I'm the first true Iraqi citizen, he (the Whatsitsname) thinks.”
― Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
tags: humanity-and-society
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“Anyone who puts on a crown, even if only as an
experiment, will end up looking for a kingdom.”
― Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
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“We try to avoid meeting one another, although we are moving around in search of one another.”
― Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
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