My Father''s Notebook

About Kader Abdolah

Kader Abdolah (a pen name created in memoriam to friends who died under the persecution of the current Iranian regime) was born in Iran in 1954. While a student of physics in Tehran he joined a secret leftist party that fought against the dictatorship of the shah and the subsequent dictatorship of the ayatollahs. Abdolah wrote for an illegal journal and clandestinely published two books in Iran. In 1988 at the invitation of the United Nations he arrived in the Netherlands as a political refugee. He now writes in Dutch and is the author of novels short stories and works of non-fiction.Susan Massotty is a translator of Dutch into English. She has translated works by Kader Abdolah and Margriet de Moor as well as Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. She won the Vondel Prize for My Father's Notebook.