Kader Abdolah published two novels about life under the Khomeini regime before fleeing his homeland in 1985. Three years later he came to the Netherlands. He has written and published four books in Dutch: De adelaars, De meisjes en de partizanen, De reis van de lege flessen, and in 2000, the novel Spijkerschrif (Cuneiform), which will be published in the United States by HarperCollins.
In 1997, he received the Dutch Media Prize for his collected columns from the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.
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