Rafik Schami was born in Damascus and studied in Germany where he became a leading German novelist and a pivotal figure in the European migrant literature movement. He has received the Hermann Hesse Prize and he was the 2010 Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for The Dark Side of Love.
Rafik Schami was born in Damascus and studied in Germany where he became a leading German novelist and a pivotal figure in the European migrant literature movement. He has received the Hermann Hesse Prize and he was the 2010 Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for The Dark Side of Love.
