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Ghaib Tu'ma Farman

Died in 1990

Ghaib Tu'ma Farman was born on 17 September 1927 in Baghdad. He studied Arabic literature in Cairo from 1947 to 1951, then at the University of Baghdad, and worked as a journalist. He left Iraq in the fifties, lived in Syria and China among other places, then settled in Moscow in 1960, where he translated many Russian classics into Arabic, including Turgenev and Tolstoy, and wrote all his novels. He died there on 17 August 1990.

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