Suleman Taufiq
Biography
Suleman Taufiq is a German-Syrian author and is known as a poet, storyteller, music critic, publicist, editor and translator of Arabic literature and lives in Aachen.
Born in Beirut in 1953 to a Syrian family, Taufiq spent his childhood in Damascus in order to study philosophy and comparative literature in Germany in 1971 after graduating from high school.
His first volume of poetry in German was published in 1978. In addition to poems, novels, short stories and essays, he writes stories for children and translates Arabic works into German and numerous German poets into Arabic. He has also worked as an author for television and radio, e.g. for WDR, hr, SWR and DLR.
Suleman Taufiq received the Literature Prize of the City of Aachen in 1983 and has received two scholarships from the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Education. In 2015 he was nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize, and he also received the Media Prize of the Professional Association of Pediatricians in the radio category.
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In his short stories, Suleman Taufiq tells of people who have to find their way in a foreign country. Accustomed to the peculiarities of the culture in which they grew up, they suddenly find themselves in an environment that fosters completely different ones. There they encounter all sorts of peculiarities and obstacles. Many of these always cheerful, sometimes funny anecdotes from life are based on smaller and larger everyday, cultural misunderstandings.
The comedy is gripping and at the same time it has a pinch of tragedy in store because these stories are still relevant and repeat themselves over and over again in the same or similar way.
