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Kadhim Jihad

Saturday, 14 June 2008

Biography:

Kadhim Jihad was born in south Iraq in 1955. He has lived in Paris since 1976. He is a poet and translator, publishing his poetry in literary magazines for 25 years, with two collections. He has translated into Arabic Arthur Rimbaud's collected works, and works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Juan Goytisolo and recently Philippe Jaccottet. His 1036-page translation into Arabic of Dante's The Divine Comedy has just been published by UNESCO.