Akram Osman

Mohammad Akram Osman (May 2, 1937 – August 11, 2016) was an Afghan short-story writer, novelist and intellectual. He was born in Herat, Afghanistan. He has his PhD from the faculty of Law and political science at Tehran University. He has worked, for years, as narrator and writer of several social – cultural programs in Afghanistan's Radio and Television. He has been head of the Art and Literature Department at Radio Afghanistan for some period.

Akram Osman has the Candidate to Academician title from the Science Academy of Afghanistan and he has been in charge of the History and Law Institutes at the Science Academy of Afghanistan.

He has served as president of Afghanistan's Writers Association too.

His last appointments were in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan. Osman has worked from January 1990 to April 1991 as Afghan Consul General in the first Afghan consulate in the city of Dushanbe capital of Tajikistan, and from August 1991 to May 1992 he worked as Afghan Chargé d’affaires in Afghan Embassy in Tehran.

Osman has been a member of Swedish Writers’ Union.

Osman has been head of Afghans’ Pen Club in Stockholm, Sweden. The magazine Farda was published by Afghan Pen Club in Stockholm under his supervision.

In February 2014 the Presidency of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan gave a medal (مدال غازی میر مسجدی خان) of honorary recognition to Osman for his contributions to Afghanistan and Afghan literature.

The Afghan film has produced two films based on two short stories by Osman. The films are based on the short stories Real Men Keep Their Word and The Deceptive Object.

Osman and his family emigrated to Sweden on August 28, 1992. He died in the city of Jönköping, Sweden August 11, 2016. He is buried in the Eastern cemetery in the city of Jönköping. Akram Osman was married to Maliha Osman, they have three children, one daughter Arzo Osman and two sons Maiwand Osman & Omid Osman.

The ninth annual Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards, Iran's most lucrative literary prize, paid tribute to Osman, the celebrated Afghan writer. Provided by Wikipedia