Zahir al-Ghafri

Zahir al-Ghafri was born in 1956 and grew up in the village of Surur, in the wilayat of Samail; as a child, he accompanied his father on trading journeys to India and Basra. Having left to study in Baghdad in 1968, he discovered modern Iraqi poetry there, then obtained a degree in philosophy in Rabat, at Mohammed V University. He then lived in Paris and New York before settling in Malmö, in Sweden, where he died on 21 September 2024. He published a dozen collections of prose poems.

In the catalogue 1

• Poetryأزهار في بئرZahir al-Ghafri · 2000not translated into EnglishLiterature