Tarek Eltayeb

Tarek Eltayeb was born to Sudanese parents in Cairo in 1959, and has lived in Vienna since 1984. He studied at the Institute for Economic Philosophy at Vienna’s University of Economics, and currently teaches at three Austrian universities. He has published two novels, two collections of short stories, five collections of poetry, one play, and an autobiography, all in Arabic. His works have been translated into German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Macedonian, Romanian and Serbian. He is a faculty member of the International Writing Program Between the Lines at the University of Iowa. He was the recipient of the Elias Cannetti Fellowship of the City of Vienna in 2005 and the International Grand Prize for Poetry at the 2007 Curtea de Argeş Festival 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. Further information about his life and work can be found here.