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Ahmad Katlesh
Author · 3 books
Ahmad Katlesh, born in Damascus in 1988, is a writer, journalist, speaker and voice artist. He has published poetry and prose volumes in Syria and Jordan, as well as an anthology of Syrian poetry. His first poetry collection in German, Das Gedächtnis der Finger (The Memory of Fingers), was published by Edition Rugerup in 2020. In 2017, he came to Germany on a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation; in 2020, he received the Chamisso Publication Scholarship from the Friedrich Baur Foundation. In 2015, he founded the Arabic-language literary platform Tiklam.