Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen ( _ar. أديب كمال الدين) (born 1953) is an Iraqi Australian poet, journalist and translator writing mainly in Arabic

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen studied Economics and English Literature at the Baghdad University and has a Diploma of Interpreting (Arabic-English) from the Adelaide Institute of TAFE in South Australia.

He has published nine poetry collections and won the major prize of Iraqi poetry in 1999. His work has been translated into many languages and reviewed by Iraqi, Tunisian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Yemeni and Moroccan critics and Dr. Migdad Rahim has edited the collection "Man of Letters: 33 critics write about Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen's poetry" on his work. He has written Arabic translation of short stories and poems from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, China and the United States.

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen lives in Australia and is an Australian citizen. He has been a guest at Friendly Street Poets in Adelaide in 2004 and at the Gallery de la Catessen in Adelaide in 2006. Some of his poems have been published in "The Best Australian Poems 2007" (edited by Peter Rose) and in "Southerly", "Meanjin" among other magazines.

External links

* [http://www.adeb.netfirms.com Home page]
* [http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/fp22.htm An Attempt at The Bullet]
* http://www.adeb.netfirms.com/English/insomnia.htm
* http://www.adeb.netfirms.com/English/Boredom.htm
* http://www.adeb.netfirms.com/English/theft.htm

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DATE OF BIRTH=1953
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