Peter-Paul Zahl

Peter-Paul Zahl (March 14, 1944, in Freiburg im Breisgau – January 24, 2011, in Port Antonio, Jamaica) was a German-born anarchist–libertarian writer and director. He last held dual German–Jamaican citizenship.

His extensive work, which includes lyric poetry, prose, and plays, is marked by the politicization of literature in West German society as a result of the 1968 movement. He was honored in 1980 for the picaresque novel ''Die Glücklichen'' and in 1995 for the crime novel ''Der schöne Mann.''

In the late 1960s, he became known in West Berlin as the printer of the underground magazine ''Agit 883'' and as a publisher and author of subcultural writings from the radical leftist social environment, which brought him into the focus of law enforcement.

After critically wounding a police officer in a shootout while fleeing from police, he was imprisoned from 1972 to 1982. In 1976, the Düsseldorf District Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for two counts of attempted murder. While in prison, Zahl intensified his literary work. He then became involved in cultural politics for the New Jewel Movement in Grenada and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. From 1985 he lived primarily in Jamaica. Provided by Wikipedia