Nizar Aghri

Nizar Aghri (born 1961) is a Syrian-Kurdish writer and translator. He was born in Turkey and currently lives in Oslo.

He has published three novels:
 * The Papers of Mullah Za’afran (2005),
 * Salem Street (2017) and
 * In Search of Azar (2021).

In Search of Azar was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2022. He has also translated several books by the Italian writer Erri De Luca.