Amer al-Tayyeb, Iraq

Poet

An Iraqi poet born in 1990 in the city of Al-Suwaira, Wasit Province, and a member of the General Union of Iraqi Writers and Authors. 

He published his first collection, Akthar Min Mawot Wahid Be Esbaa (An Extra Finger More Than Death) in 2018 with the Egyptian General Book Authority, followed by  Yaqef Waheedan Ka Shajarateen (He Stands Alone Like Two Trees), which won the 2018 literary award of the General Union of Iraqi Writers and Authors for writers under thirty-five.

His third collection, Koryat Al Dam AL Khadra (Green Blood Cells), was published in Tunisia by Dar Al-Amina Publishing in 2019, and his fourth, Al Baqiya Fe Hayat Shaks  (What Remains in Someone Else's Life), was published by Khutut wa Dhilal in Jordan in 2020. 

He has also published Lais Mi Ajel Shwang Tsu (Not Just for Zhuangzi) Dar Al-A'idoun, 2020 Al Afaal Al Madya (Past Tense, Forever) Egyptian General Book Authority, 2021, and Sama Baidaa Ka Qaber Maftooh  (Sky as Distant as an Open Grave) - Dar Al-Nahda, 2021.

His collection Qasa’ed Al Thulataa’ Al Fa’et Min Kol ‘Am (Poems of Last Tuesday for Every Year) won the Mophradat Grant in Belgium in 2023 and has not yet been published. 

His work has appeared in most local and Arab newspapers, and some of his texts have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Kurdish, and Persian. 

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