Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, and screenwriter born in Baghdad in 1973. He has worked for numerous local newspapers, magazines, and media outlets, and served as a BBC correspondent in Baghdad from 2005 to 2007. He currently works in documentary film production and writing, television program development, and screenwriting. He previously worked as a correspondent for the Berlin-based German agency MICT. He publishes in the newspapers Al-Sabah, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed, and Al-Mada, as well as weekly magazines such as Al-Shabaka and Tawasul, all published in Baghdad. He won first prize in the Iraqi Press Festival in the reportage category in 2004. His most prominent novel is *Frankenstein in Baghdad*, published in 2013, which won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Arabic Booker Prize) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Saadawi is the first Iraqi novelist and the fifth Arab novelist to be nominated for the prize, following Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz, Lebanese Amin Maalouf and Hoda Barakat, and Libyan Ibrahim al-Koni. The novel has been translated into 32 languages, including English, Chinese, French, and Korean, and is set to be adapted into a film. He and his friends Naji al-Kinani and Samer al-Saba’ founded a publishing house and bookstore called “Nabu Publishing and Distribution.”