Abbas Khider (born 1973 in Baghdad) he was already arrested for political activism as a seventeen-year-old. As soon as it is Released in 1996, he leaves Iraq and lives illegally in various countries an immigrant. He has been living in Germany since 2000, legally. He attracted the attention of the literary public with his debut novel Lažni Indijac (2008), and the novel Shamar , published in 2016, is considered his biggest achievement so far. Khider is the winner of numerous awards, the most recent of which is this year's award Adelbert von Chamisso awarded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung to writers who write in German and whose works "reflect the influences of the changing cultural environment".