Narmin Kamal

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Narmin Kamal (Nərmin Kamal) (b. 9 October 1981) is an essayist and novelist from Azerbaijan.

Work

Narmin Kamal is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature of Azerbaijan. As a novelist Narmin Kamal made her debut with Open, It's Me! (2010, Baku), the experimental novel, critically acclaimed, won two local awards in Azerbaijan, Imadaddin Nasimi Prize and Young Novelist Radio Liberty Prize for debut novels. Among its main themes are living under different names, life between two worlds, and between past and present. The action takes place in Baku, Berlin and Balkh. N.Kamal switches the narration between 39 points of view, leaving 40-th to its readers.

In 2008 she was one of twelve European writers invited to write an essay for the young.euro.connect German festival.^[1] She was among the six invited to the readings in Berlin and Munich.

Narmin Kamal won the first place at 2010 essay competition "The Life and Thoughts of a Woman in Azerbaijan", which was organized with the generous support of the British Embassy in Baku in 2010.

She translated Sophie's World a novel on history of philosophy by Jostein Gaarder from English into Azerbaijani, which was published in 2010.

Narmin Kamal holds BA (hons) in Philosophy and MA (D) in History of Philosophy. "Umberto Eco and Philosophy of Postmodernism" - her PhD work was published in 2008/2012 in Baku (Qanun Publishing), she was a visiting researcher in Spain and Italy, researched her thesis at (University of Navarra) and (Bologna University) with a Spanish supervisor. The winner of 2011 Writer-in-Residence, Vienna, Kulturkontakt.

References

↑ "Young Euro Connect". Young Euro Connect. Retrieved 2009-05-03.

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Notes	Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Dagestan and also widely spoken in Iran, Turkey, Russia and Georgia

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Name	Kamal, Narmin
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Short description	Writer
Date of birth	1981
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