Ahmed Sofa (Bengali: আহমদ ছফা) was a Bangladeshi writer, humanist and rebell. He wrote eight novels, four collections of poems, two collections of short stories, eighteen non-fiction books, and several books in other genres. He was born on 30 June 1943 in Gachbaria in the district of Chattogram and died on 28 July 2001 in Dhaka. This documentation presents some of his works—including previously unpublished ones—as well as personal letters to Peter Dietzel, translations into German, and how his work has been received in Germany.
A life so full // Ein Leben so voll – Remembering Ahmed Sofa
„When I talk about Ahmed Sofa I usually begin with the story of his apple tree“ starts Tobias Schüth’s memoir about the revolutionary, lover, mystic, humanist, dreamer and poet. – August 2001, English & deutsch
Ein Tag in Ashus Leben
Kurzgeschichte von Ahmed Sofa – in deutscher Übersetzung von Barbara DasGupta, Dezember 1999
Ein Slum wird abgerissen
Gedicht von Ahmed Sofa – in deutscher Übersetzung von Barbara DasGupta, Mai 1993
Ahmed Sofa: Der Maler S.M.Sultan
Für die Zeitschrift NETZ zeichnet Sofa ein persönliches und ungewöhnliches Porträt des freiheitheitsliebenden bangladeschischen Künstlers S.M.Sultan – und stellt ihn damit erstmals der deutschen Öffentlichkeit vor. September 1991
Ahmed Sofa: The Seed of Nonviolence
A letter from the Bengali writer from February 1991