{{Short description|Afghan writer, intellectual and novelist (1937–2016)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2019}} {{Infobox writer | name = Mohammad Akram Osman | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | native_name = محمد اکرم عثمان | native_name_lang = | image = AkramOsman.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|05|02}} | birth_place = Herat, Afghanistan | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|08|11|1937|05|02}} | death_place = Jönköping, Sweden | resting_place = | occupation = Short story writer, novelist, diplomat, historian, literary scholar | language = Persian/Dari | education = PhD in political science | alma_mater = Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran | period = | genre = <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | notableworks = ''کوچۀ ما'' Our Street, ''مرداره قول اس'' Real Men Keep Their Word, ''وقتی که نیها گل میکنند'' When the Reeds Bloom, ''مرد و نامرد'' The Hero and the Coward | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> }}
'''Mohammad Akram Osman''' (May 2, 1937 – August 11, 2016) was a renowned 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 a 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.
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.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://forfattarforbundet.se/in-english/about-us/ | title=About us}}</ref>
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<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IOspQG329o |title=مرد ها ره قول اس MARDHA RA QAOL AS - YouTube |website=www.youtube.com |date=January 21, 2014}}</ref> and The Deceptive Object.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0jVPeOIYpo |title=- YouTube |website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
Osman and his family emigrated to Sweden on August 28, 1992. He died<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bakhtarnews.com.af/eng/social/item/24287-president-ghani%E2%80%99s-condolence-sympathy-message.html | title=President Ghani's Condolence, Sympathy Message}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.thekabultimes.gov.af/old-site/index.php/newsnational/11569-moic-condolence-message.html | title=The Kabul Times – MoIC condolence message | access-date=December 26, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204122303/http://www.thekabultimes.gov.af/old-site/index.php/newsnational/11569-moic-condolence-message.html | archive-date=February 4, 2019 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://fa.euronews.com/2016/08/13/writer-from-afghanistan-akram-osman-dies | title="کوچه ما"، در سوگ اکرم عثمان| date=August 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bbc.com/persian/afghanistan/2016/08/160812_kk_akram_osman_dies | title=اکرم عثمان٬ نویسنده افغان درگذشت| date=August 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://af.farsnews.com/allnews/news/13950522000290 | title=نویسنده شهیر افغانستانی درگذشت – FarsNews Agency}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.darivoa.com/a/akram-osman-storian-reciter-of--poem-doctor-of-political-science/3462799.html | title=اکرم عثمان، داستان سرای که خاموش شد| date=August 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2493&artikel=6495417 | title=دکتر محمد اکرم عثمان درگذشت – رادیو سوئد / رادیوی سویدن Radio Sweden Farsi/Dari| newspaper=Sveriges Radio| date=August 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.rasad.af/1395/05/22/afghan-writer-akram-osman-passed-away/ | title=محمد اکرم عثمان، نویسنده داستان "مردا ره قول اس" در گذشت| date=August 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://tavaana.org/fa/Akaram_Osman | title=اکرم عثمان؛ روایتگر دردمند کابل| date=October 22, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://farasu.net/?p=1592 | title=نام داکتر محمد اکرم عثمان در جریدۀ عالم ثبت است. | تارنمای فراسو}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.tolafghan.com/posts/33106 | title=Tolafghan: له افغانستان او نړۍ څخه شننې او څيړنې}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.ufuqnews.com/archives/40520 | title=اکرم عثمان، شهرنگار کابلی از میان ما رفت| date=August 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://jawedan.com/1395/10826/ | title=در سوگِ راوی نستوه دردهای کابل| date=August 14, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://howd.org/index.php/2014-05-06-22-20-55/1109-2016-08-14-14-51-16 | title=ابر مرد داستان ورومان افغان در ایستگاه اخیر زندگی پیاده شد!/ پوهنیار بشیر مومن}}</ref> in the city of Jönköping, Sweden August 11, 2016. He is buried in the Eastern cemetery<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/%C3%96stra+Kyrkog%C3%A5rden/@57.7779855,14.2010902,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x465a6d9fc9cc9cbb:0x1e5c493983357311!8m2!3d57.7779827!4d14.2032841 | title=Östra Kyrkogården}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Pt4z0nTTY&t=44s|title=Our beloved Dad - Mohammad Akram Osman - YouTube|website=www.youtube.com|date=August 11, 2017 }}</ref>
The ninth annual Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}<!-- WP:RS needed; removed link to WP-->, Iran's most lucrative literary prize, paid tribute to Osman, the celebrated Afghan writer.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/409350/Jalal-literary-awards-to-commemorate-Afghan-author-Mohammad-Akram | title=Jalal literary awards to commemorate Afghan author Mohammad Akram Osman| date=December 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.farsnews.com/news/13951005000918/%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%AA%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%AC%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A8-%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AA | title=خبرگزاری فارس – افغانستان قلب تپنده جایزه کتاب جلال لقب گرفت| work=خبرگزاری فارس| date=December 25, 2016}}</ref>
==Publications in Persian language== * ''وقتی که نیها گل میکنند When the Reeds Bloom'' (Collection of Short Stories), published by Afghanistan Writer Association at 1985. * ''درز دیوار A Crack in the Wall'' (Collection of Short Stories), published by Baihaqi Book Press, Kabul at 1987. * ''مرداره قول اس Real Men Keep Their Word'' (Collection of Short Stories), published by Afghanistan Writer Association at 1988. * ''مرداره قول اس Real Men Keep Their Word'' (Collection of Short Stories), published by Maiwand Publications, Peshawar 1989. * ''قحط سالی Famine'' (Collection of Short Stories), published by Afghans’ Pen Club in Stockholm, Baran 2003, Stockholm, 91-631-4540-5 * ''باز آفریده Recreated'' (Collection of Short Stories), published by Cultural Cooperation Association Qara Kamar in Sweden, Peshawar 2005 * ''کوچۀ ما Our Street'' (Novel), published by Kaweh verlag, Germany 2005, 91-631-7847-8 * ''مرداره قول اس Real Men Keep Their Word'' (Collection of Short Stories), New edition, published by CADA/Op Mercy Afghanistan, Kabul 2006 * ''مرداره قول اس Real Men Keep Their Word'' (Collection of Short Stories), New edition, published by CADA/Op Mercy Afghanistan, Kabul 2010 * ''کوچۀ ما Our Street'' (Novel), published by Mohammad Ibrahim Shariati Afghanistani (Erfan), 1st Edition, Tehran, Iran, 2009, 978-964-04-4314-9, 978-964-04-4316-3. * ''کوچۀ ما Our Street'' (Novel), published by Mohammad Ibrahim Shariati Afghanistani (Erfan), 2nd Edition, Tehran, Iran, 2013, 978-600-65-8012-8. * ''بازوی بریده Cut off Arm'' (Novel), published by Kaweh verlag, Germany, 2016 * ''مرداره قول اس، مجموعۀ کامل داستان های کوتاه اکرم عثمان Real Men Keep Their Word'', published by Nashre Zaryab, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2017 * ''آن بالا و این پایین، گزیده داستان های اکرم عثمان'', published by Taak Publication, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2019 * ''تاریخ افغانستان در صد سال اخیر'', published by Café 60 Media, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022, 978-91-986704-2-4.
==Non-Persian publications== ===English=== * ''Real Men Keep Their Word''<ref>{{Cite book |isbn = 978-0195471144|title = Real Men Keep Their Word: Tales from Kabul, Afghanistan : A Selection of Akram Osman's Dari Short Stories|last1 = ʻosmān|first1 = Akram|year = 2005 | publisher=New York }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://gulgasht.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/real-men-keep-their-word-tales-from-kabul-afghanistan-by-akram-osman/ | title=Real Men Keep Their Word: Tales from Kabul, Afghanistan by Akram Osman| date=June 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.about-afghanistan.com/real-men-keep-their-word.html | title=Real Men Keep Their Word}}</ref> (A Selection of Short Stories), translated by Arley Loewen,<ref>https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arley-loewen-1637777 {{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> published by Oxford University Press, Karachi 2005, 0-19-547114-8
===German=== * ''Moderne Erzähler Der Welt, Afghanistan'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Moderne Erzähler der Welt, Afghanistan: Amazon.de: Bücher|id={{ASIN|3771107873|country=de}}}}</ref> 1987, 3-7711-0787-3. Two short stories: Ein Man, ein Wort & Wenn die Binsen blühen.
===Swedish=== * ''Blodig gryning och andra noveller från Afghanistan'',<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bokborsen.se/view/Stefan-Lindgren-F%C3%B6rord-Och-%C3%96ve/Blodig-Gryning-Och-Andra-Noveller-Fr%C3%A5n-Afghanistan/4218991 | title=Blodig gryning och andra... | Stefan Lindgren förord oc... | 70 SEK}}</ref> Stockholm, 1992, 91-86936-38-7. Two short stories: En man står vid sitt ord & När det blommar i säven. * ''De Nya amerikabreven'',<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://bibliotek.jonkoping.se/work/de-nya-amerikabreven?id=c59367a8-266d-33d5-1543-26f45bfe5742 | isbn=9789163179631| title=De nya amerikabreven| date=January 2005| last1=Muadi| first1=Muhammed| publisher=Jönköpings kommun}}</ref> 2005, 91-631-7963-6. One short story: Den fjärde katten.
===Other languages=== Some of Osman's writings have been published in Russian<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/31620918/|title=Книга "Заколдованный город" Хабиб Асадулла – купить книгу с быстрой доставкой в интернет-магазине OZON|website=OZON.ru}}</ref> and Bulgarian languages and also in cyrillic alphabet in Tajikistan.
==Research papers== * ''Asian Production Method and classification of historical staging'', published by Science Academy of Afghanistan, Kabul, 1990. * ''Diplomatic Relations between Afghanistan and USSR'' (doctoral thesis), published by Gestepner, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Tehran University, 1971–2. * ''The Operation of Historical Transformation in East'', published by weekly paper Sareer in the Netherlands at 1996.
==Films based on Osman's short stories== * (''مرد هاره قول اس Real Men Keep Their Word'') * (''نقطه نیرنگی The Deceptive Object'')
==References== {{Reflist}}
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