Saad Mohammed Raheem
Saad Mohammed Raheem was an Iraqi writer.
He was born in Diyala Governorate in eastern Iraq in 1957. He studied economics at Mustansiriya University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1980. He wrote several collections of short stories, among them Almond Blossom which won the 2010 Creativity Prize for the Short Story. He also published three novels: Twilight of the Wader, which won the 2000 Creativity Award for Fiction, The Song of a Woman, Twilight of the Sea, and The Bookseller's Murder, which was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize. A well-known journalist in his native Iraq, he won the 2005 Iraqi Award for Best Investigative Journalism.
He died of a stroke in Sulaymaniyah in April 2018.
