Saadi Youssef

Saadi Youssef was born in 1934 in Abu al-Khasib, near Basra, and graduated in Arabic literature from the Higher Teachers' College in Baghdad. Committed to the left from an early age, a member of the Communist Party for more than twenty years, he went into exile several times and left Iraq in the seventies, never to return: he lived in Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, Aden and France, then in London, where he died in June 2021. He translated Whitman, Cavafy, Lorca and Ritsos into Arabic.

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• Poetryالأخضر بن يوسف ومشاغلهSaadi Youssef · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature