1. Mohammad Akram Osman born to an enslaved Hazara mother and a Pashtun father, was a renowned Afghan short-story writer, novelist, and intellectual.
10 Facts About Akram Osman
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Akram Osman has his PhD from the faculty of Law and political science at Tehran University.
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Akram Osman has been head of the Art and Literature Department at Radio Afghanistan for some period.
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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.
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Akram Osman has served as president of Afghanistan's Writers Association too.
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Akram Osman has been head of Afghans' Pen Club in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Akram Osman died in the city of Jonkoping, Sweden August 11,2016.
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Akram Osman is buried in the Eastern cemetery in the city of Jonkoping.
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The ninth annual Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards, Iran's most lucrative literary prize, paid tribute to Akram Osman, the celebrated Afghan writer.
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Some of Akram Osman's writings have been published in Russian and Bulgarian languages and in cyrillic alphabet in Tajikistan.