Husain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand.
A fine new translation. . . . Bawdy, colloquial and wondrously
inventive, the tales have influenced such disparate writers as John
Barth, D. M. Thomas, Jorge Luis Borges, and Martin Amis, all of
whom have embraced Shahrazad as the ultimate symbol of the
storyteller's art.--Michiko Kakutani
Easily the clearest, most fluent and most readable [translation] I
have met.--A. S. Byatt
Indispensable. . . . Not a new version of an old favorite, but a
work we've never known.--Geoffrey O'Brien
The resourceful Shahrazad . . . has never been more entertaining
than in this fresh and vigorous version of this immortal
book.--Doris Lessing
[A] distinguished new translation.--Edward Said
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