The prolific poet and translator, Ali Abdollahi was born in Birjand, South Khorasan Province in Iran in 1968. He has published seven collections of poetry and written biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke and G\u00fcnter Grass, as well as translating more than ninety books on literature and philosophy. A gifted translator from German, Abdollahi has introduced a large number of German poets and writers of the word to Iranians, including Rilke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertolt Brecht, Erich Fried, Franz Kafka, Heinrich B\u00f6ll, Michael Kr\u00fcger, Ilma Rakusa, Erich K\u00e4stner, Michael Ende, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse, Fernando Pessoa,Janis Ritsos ,David Albahari and others.<\/p>\n
In addition, Abdollahi has published collections of ancient Egyptian poetry, ancient Indian poetry, contemporary Japanese poetry and Lithuanian poetry, to which he has contributed substantive and detailed introductions.<\/p>\n
Abdollahi has also written poems in German, some of which were recently published in an anthology called Heir ist Iran<\/em> by Sujet Verlag in Bremen.<\/p>\n Abdollahi’s is the Iranian moderator of the German Lyrikline poetry website www.lyrikline.org through which he has introduced Iranian poets to German readers and world poets to the Persian speakers.<\/p>\n His poems have been translated into German, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Dutch, English, Lithuanian, Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Serbian and Arabic.<\/p>\n Abdollahi has won many scholarships and awards from literary institutions such as the Goethe Institute in Munich and \u00dcbersetzerhaus Looren in Zurich. He has taken part in the Poesiefestival in Berlin many times and has given readings and lectures in Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich, Vienna, Cologne, Ruse, Vilnius, Ahmedabad Gujarat and New Delhi.<\/p>\n Until his recent dismissal from Isfahan State University, Abdollahi taught German language and literature in a number of Iranian universities. Now a freelance poet, writer and translator, he lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Persian:<\/strong><\/p>\n Immerfort gehe ich im Dunkel<\/strong> (Narenj-Verlag, Teheran 1997).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n So ist es also, dass er nicht kommt<\/strong> (Sales-Verlag, Teheran 2002).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Der Wind hat meine Geburtsurkunde entwendet<\/strong> (1.Auflage Schamlu-Verlag Maschhad, 2009, 2. Auflage Nimaj Verlag, Teheran, 2013).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Gelobt sei der Wal<\/strong> (Amrood-Verlag Teheran, 2011).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Geometrie der Kastanienb\u00e4ume<\/strong> (Shaani Verlag, 2016).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Meere hinter der Wand<\/strong>, (Morvarid Verlag, 2017).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Der rote Schattenspender<\/strong>,(Cheshme Verlag, 2017).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n In German: Lyrikline.org<\/strong>, http:\/\/www.lyrikline.org\/de\/gedichte\/2230.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Akzente<\/strong>, Heft 1 , Gedichte, ins Deutsche \u00fcbersetzt von Susanne Baghestani, Februar 2007.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hier ist Iran<\/strong>, herausgegeben von Gerrit Wustmann, Sujet-Verlag, Bremen, 2011.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Akzente<\/strong>, Heft 4,\u00a0 8 Gedichte, ins Deutsche \u00fcbersetzt von Farhad Ahmadkhan, August 2014.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Gedichte auf Deutsch und Griechisch, <\/strong>Kalender 2016, Patkiout, Deutsche Version in: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Villa Waldberta Landes, Griechische Version in Aten. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n VERSschmuggel, <\/strong>Gedichte: deutsch, persisch, Hrg.Aurelie Maurin, Thomas Wohlfahrt, Ein Projekt des Haus f\u00fcr Poesie, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Rainer Malkowski, ins Persische \u00fcbersetzt, in: <\/strong>Vom R\u00e4tsel ein St\u00fcck, Beitr\u00e4ge zum Werk des Dichters Rainer Malkowski, Hrg. von Waldemar Fromm und Holger Pils, Wallstein Verlag, G\u00f6ttingen, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Aus meinem Siggener Tagebuch,<\/strong> in: Draussen<\/strong>, 2013-2014 Doppeljahrbuch, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.2015,(S.85-86).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The First Person to view, Interviews with Authors and Poets, by Ali Abdollahi<\/strong>,(16 Gespr\u00e4che\u00a0 von Ali Abdollahi mit den deutschen und iranischen AutorInnen, u.a. G\u00fcnter Grass, Michael Kr\u00fcger, Michael Hamburger, Doris R\u00fcnge, Geritt Wustamann, und 11 iranischen Autoren).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 22 Gedichte von Ali Abdollahi, mit einem Beitrag von Alireza Abiz<\/strong>, \u00fcbersetzt\u00a0 aus dem Persischen ins Serbische von Namir Karahalilovic, in: Sarajevo Notebook<\/strong>, No.47-48,Sarajevo, (S.207 bis 220).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Anthologie persicher Dichtung im europ\u00e4ischen Exil<\/strong>, 2021 (Verlag das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Ein Dieb im Dunkeln starrt auf ein Gem\u00e4lde – Persischsprachige Lyrik des 21. Jahrhunderts<\/strong>, 2021\u00a0 (Sujet Verlag, Bremen).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The prolific poet and translator, Ali Abdollahi was born in Birjand, South Khorasan Province in Iran in 1968. He has published seven collections of poetry and written biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke and G\u00fcnter Grass, as well as translating more than ninety books on literature and philosophy. A gifted translator from German, Abdollahi has introduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15523,"template":"","categories":[7,8],"class_list":["post-15515","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author","category-translator"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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