Atiq Rahimi

Atiq Rahimi was born in 1962 in Kabul, to a father who was a provincial governor under King Zahir Shah and a mother who was a teacher. After studying literature at Kabul University, threatened because of his family's connections, he reached Pakistan in 1984 and obtained asylum in France, where he defended a doctoral thesis in audiovisual communication at the Sorbonne. A documentary maker, then a novelist, he received the Prix Goncourt in 2008 for The Patience Stone, which he himself brought to the screen, and his books are translated into some twenty languages.

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• NovelEarth and Ashesخاکستر و خاکAtiq Rahimi · 2000Literature