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Faruq Mirahmadi

Dr. (UA) Faruq Mirahmadi, born in Afghanistan in 1959, completed his undergraduate studies and earned his doctorate in the Soviet Union. He has lived in Germany with his family since late 2000. His literary and professional work covers a wide range of topics: in 2015, his technical book on Heating Engineering was published in Kabul. His first novel, Schabo and Suhrab, followed in late 2016, published by KUUUK. Faruq Mirahmadi has received multiple awards for his storytelling. His story Scheitanak won first place in 2017 at the literary competition of the 11th Bonn Book Fair on Migration (children and young adult stories category). In 2019, he took second place there with Mein erster Kassettenrekorder. Additionally, his short story Der Kuss der Nomadin made it into the top ten of the anthology Im Zaubergarten der Worte published by R.G. Fischer Verlag in 2018. Other publications include the book Ein Stadtjunge aus Butter, which was released in April 2018 via KDP, as well as
Die Gefangenen von Deh-Masang (2018), published by Twentysix, the self-publishing imprint of the Random House Publishing Group and BoD. In February 2023, his short story Bekanntschaft mit der Sowjetunion: Eine Erinnerung was also published via KDP as a Kindle edition. In addition to his prose, he writes poetry in Pashto.