Rodaan Al Galidi
Rodaan Al Galidi (born 1971) is a Dutch writer of Iraqi descent. A trained engineer, he fled his native Iraq and came to the Netherlands in 1998. Al Galidi writes both prose and poetry in Dutch, a language he taught himself. His novel "De autist en de postduif" ("The autist and the carrier-pigeon") won the EU Prize for Literature. He is also the author of "Two Blankets, Three Sheets", which is a fictionalized account of his emigration experiences.