Hussein Habasch (Germany)

HUSSEIN HABASCH (b. 1970 in Afrin, Kurdistan). He currently lives in Bonn, Germany. His poems have been translated into English, German, Spanish, French, Persian, Uzbek, Albanian, Russian, Romanian, Italian, Chinese etc. 

His poetry has been published in more than 200 International Poetry Anthologies. His books include: Drowning in Roses, Fugitives across Evros River, Higher than Desire and more Delicious than the Gazelle’s Flank, Delusions to Salim Barakat, A Flying Angel. He has won several awards, among which: The International Best Poet Prize 2016 awarded in China by the International Poetry Translation and Research Centre, the Journal of the World Poets Quarterly and the Editorial Board of the Chinese Poetry International, the Great Kurdish Poet Hamid Bedirkhan Award, awarded by the General Union of Kurdish Writers and Journalists (2022), the Bangladesh Kathak International Literary Prize, awarded at the World Thinkers’ and Writers’ Peace Meet in Calcutta, India (2024).

He has participated in many international poetry festivals, in Colombia, Nicaragua, France, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Germany, Romania, Lithuania, USA), Indonesia and Italy and many more.