Foreigners on the South Terrace - Summer Reading with Amir Shaheen

Brief description:
The Cologne writer Amir Shaheen roams through his work and presents thoughtful as well as satirical and cheerful texts from his books.

About the author:
Amir Shaheen, born in Lüdenscheid in 1966, studied German, English, theatre, film and television studies. The trained publishing clerk works as an author, editor and PR editor and writes poetry, prose, satirical material and columns. He has been publishing literary texts since 1989 and has made a name for himself in particular as a poet. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, magazines, and on the radio, and have been included in The Great Conrady - The Book of German Poems. He is a member of PEN Germany.
For his poem "Sediment", which is part of his 2019 book of poems Traces of residual lightis, he received the postpoetry.nrw prize in 2018. In 2020 he was nominated for the Literature Prize of the city of Nettetal.