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Tarek Eltayeb

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Tarek Eltayeb

Tarek Eltayeb was born to Sudanese parents in Cairo in 1959. He has been living in Vienna since 1984. After studying at the Institute for Economic Philosophy of Vienna’s University of Economics, he is currently teaching at three universities in Austria.

He has been granted numerous major fellowships, including the Elias Cannetti Fellowship of the City of Vienna in 2005, and was awarded the International Grand Prize for Poetry 2007 at the International Festival Curtea de Argeş in Romania. In 2008, he was appointed Austrian Ambassador for the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue (EJID). In the same year, he received the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria. He is a faculty member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. His last two poetry collections have been published in Beirut in 2010 (We Sold the Ground and Were Happy with the Dust) and in Cairo in 2011 (Not Sin). He has presented his work at many international literature festivals.

photo by Hans Labler

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