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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 Autistic and the Carrier-pigeon) won the EU Prize for Literature. [1]
He is also the author of Two Blankets, Three Sheets, which is a fictionalized account of his emigration experiences. [2]
