Nizar Aghri

Nizar Aghri (born 1961) is a Syrian-Kurdish writer and translator. He was born in Turkey and currently lives in Oslo.

Nizar Aghri
Native name	نزار آغري
Born	1961 (1961) (age 64)
Language	Arabic, English

He has published three novels:

• The Papers of Mullah Za’afran (2005),
• Salem Street (2017) and
• In Search of Azar (2021).

In Search of Azar was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2022. He has also translated several books by the Italian writer Erri De Luca.^[1]