Khalid Kaki

Khalid Kaki was born in Kirkuk in 1971. He studied Spanish Literature and Philology at the University of Baghdad 1989-93, and at Autónoma University in Madrid (1997-2000) where he has lived since 1996. He has published four collections of poetry – Unsafely (Alwah, Madrid, 1998), The Guard’s Notes(Alaliph, Madrid, 2001), Cages in a Bird (Phenix, Cairo 2005) and Ashes of the Pomegranate Tree (Alfalfa, Madrid, 2011) – and two collections of short stories – The Land of Facing Mirrors (Alahlia Editions, Baghdad 2005), and The Suicide of Jose Buenavida (Almutawasit, Milan 2016).