Sudabeh Mohafez ( fa, سودابه محافظ) born 1963 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

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is a German author.

Biography

Sudabeh Mohafez studied

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

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and

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

. She worked at various

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s in the field of violence prevention. After many years in Berlin and a few in

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, she now lives as a freelance writer in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

. Sudabeh Mohafez is author of

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, poems, portraits and theaterplays. She received several literary scholarships and the

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (German ''Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis'') was a German literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for Adelbert von Chamisso. It was offered by the Ro ...

. She was Poetic lecturer at the

RheinMain University of Applied Sciences The RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (German: ''Hochschule RheinMain''), formerly University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden (German: ''Fachhochschule Wiesbaden''), is a university located in Wiesbaden, Germany, founded in 1971. It is pa ...

. In January 2008, her literary blog was awarded with the Isla-Volante Literature Prize, while in May of the same year she won the MDR-Literaturpreis.

Works

* ''Wüstenhimmel Sternenland'', Erzählungen. Arche Verlag Zürich/Hamburg 2004, * ''Gespräch in Meeresnähe'', Roman. Arche Verlag, Zürich/Hamburg 2005, * ''brennt'', Roman. DuMont Verlag, Köln 2010, * ''das zehn-zeilen-buch", 52 ultra kurzgeschichten.'' Edition AZUR, Dresden 2010, * ''Vorlesungen der Wiesbadener Poetikdozentur.'' In: ''nehmen sie mich beim wort im kreuzverhör.'' Fischer Verlag, 2010. * ''Das Eigenartige Haus'', (Illustr.: Rittiner und Gomez). edition taberna kritika, Bern 2012, * "Kitsune. Three micro-novels", (Illustr.: Rittiner und Gomez). edition AZUR, Dresden 2016,

Awards

* Scholarship literature of the Landes Baden-Württemberg * Scholarship of the Deutschen Literaturfonds * Scholarship of the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung * Scholarship of the

Robert Bosch Stiftung The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH () is a German foundation that owns a majority shareholding in Robert Bosch GmbH, from which it derives its funding. The foundation was established in accordance with the wishes of Robert Bosch, who died in 1942, an ...

* Scholarship of the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur * Residency at the art academy of

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* Residency at the Stuttgarter Schriftstellerhaus * Writer in Residence at the

Queen Mary University of London , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...

* Writer in Residence at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

* Nominated for the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2008 * Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis * MDR-Literaturpreis * Isla-Volante-Literaturprize for the literary webblog ''zehn zeilen'' * Poetics lecturer at the

External links

*
Website-Titel

das zehn-zeilen-buch

auf: www.welt.de, 25. Februar 2006

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mohafez, Sudabeh German women novelists 1963 births Writers from Tehran Living people Iranian emigrants to Germany Iranian people of German descent German women dramatists and playwrights 21st-century German dramatists and playwrights 21st-century German novelists People associated with Queen Mary University of London People associated with the University of Nottingham 21st-century German women writers