Ahmad Hosseini

Despite all the intellectual differences that have always existed between us, my poet and writer friend, Dr. Peter Schütt, has written about me on many occasions, revealing both my virtues and my flaws with remarkable candor.

He has written that I was born in Iran and that I live and work in St. Georg, Germany—a neighborhood where people of countless nationalities from every corner of the world coexist in peace and harmony. He has also noted that I attended his creative writing workshop for many years, and that he collected all of my writings, as well as our correspondence, and entrusted them to the Hamburg Central Library for preservation.

He believes that I possess a fair measure of talent in a variety of fields and that I spend far more time thinking than speaking.

Those, at least, are the things he has said about me.

And Germans, after all, are not known for exaggeration.