Atiq Rahimi
Author
For me, a successful residency is first and foremost a period of immersion, where literature and cinema nourish one another. I hope that India will transform The Other Woman, enriching its emotional, visual and narrative universe. Beyond writing the screenplay and the literary text, I hope that the encounters, landscapes, sounds and exchanges with artists will allow the project to evolve into something deeper, more organic and more alive—something that could not be achieved in any other way.
Atiq Rahimi is a Franco-Afghan writer and filmmaker who left his homeland at the age of 22. The author of Earth and Ashes, The Patience Stone (Prix Goncourt, 2008), A Curse on Dostoevsky and Mehsti, he has also adapted his novels for both cinema and opera. His works have been translated into around thirty languages, while his films have received awards at numerous international festivals. An aesthete, he is the creator of callimorphy, an artistic practice combining calligraphy and visual art, exhibited in Paris and New York. His work explores exile, memory, art and poetry, while questioning identity, language and the transmission of culture between East and West. His latest book, Kabuliwalla, c'est moi (Kabuliwalla, It's Me), has just been published.
