Qusay al-Shaykh Askar

Qusay Abd al-Ra'uf Askar, commonly known as Qusay al-Shaykh Askar (;1951) is an Iraqi-Danish novelist, poet and literary scholar. His first poetry collection was published in 1983 and his first novel in 1985, since then he has created many fictional works.

Biography Qusay Abd al-Ra'uf Askar was born in village of Nahr Jasim, Shatt Al-Arab District, east of Basra, Kingdom of Iraq in 1951. He studied primary school in Shatt al-Arab and secondary school in al-Ashar, Basra. He received a BA in Arabic literature from Basra University, Department of Arabic Language, 1973–1984, and a MA in Arabic literature from Damascus University, 1984. Then he obtained PhD from the Islamic College, London, in 2004. He taught English at Cambridge Institute in Copenhagen for five years, and Danish language in schools of Denmark for three years. Al-Shaykh Askar once stated that "In fact, what interests me without hesitation is Russian realism. Then I refrained from it and moved on to romanticism."

Works Novels: , 1985 , 1986 , 1989 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 , 1993 , 1995 , 1995 , 1995 , 2004 , 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2013 , 2013 , 2014 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2021 , 2021 Poetry collection: , 1983 , 1985 , 1985 , 2002 , 2019 Other genres: , short story collection Literary studies: , 1988 , 1988 , 1988 , 1988 , 1988 , 1988 , 1988 , 1989 , 2007 , 2014