Kader Abdolah
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Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Frahani (born 12 December 1954, Arak, Iran), an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.
He studied physics in Teheran and fled the country as a political refugee in 1988. Today he lives in Amsterdam, writing under a pseudonym made up of the names of two murdered friends. "Het huis van de moskee" ("The House of the Mosque", not yet translated into English) catapulted Abdolah onto the Dutch bestseller lists.
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