Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen (Babylon, 1953) is an Iraqi-Australian poet, journalist, and translator who holds degrees in Economics and English Literature from the University of Baghdad, as well as a Diploma of Interpreting (Arabic–English) from the Adelaide Institute of TAFE, South Australia.

He has published 31 poetry collections in both English and Arabic, including Fatherhood, Something Wrong, My Life My Life, and An Exiled Bird.

He won the major prize for Iraqi poetry in 1999. His work has been translated into many languages, including Italian, French, Spanish, Persian, and Urdu.

A substantial number of articles and books have been written about his poetic style, and many researchers have earned PhD and Master’s degrees from universities in Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Iran, and India through critical studies of his work.

As a translator, he has translated short stories and poems into Arabic from writers in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, China, and the United States.

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen lives in Australia as an Australian citizen. He was a special guest at Friendly Street Poets in Adelaide in 2004 and at Gallery de la Catessen in Adelaide in 2006. His poetry has been published in The Best Australian Poems 2007 (edited by Peter Rose) and The Best Australian Poems 2012 (edited by John Tranter), as well as on numerous Australian websites and in magazines and journals such as Southerly, Meanjin, and Friendly Street Poets.