Kurdish Literature

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Poet

Ahmedê Xanî

1651 – 1707

Ahmedê Xanî was born in 1651 in Bohtan, east of Amed, into a religious family from a Kurdish mountain region then contested between the Otto...

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Poet

Cegerxwîn

1903 – 1984

Cegerxwîn — 'the broken-hearted' — was the pen name of the poet Şêxmûs Hesen (1903–1984), the greatest Kurdish nationalist poet of the twent...

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Poet

Melayê Cizîrî

1570 – 1640

Melayê Cizîrî (1570–1640), the greatest of Kurdish classical poets before Ahmedê Xanî. Born in Cizîrê (Cizre) in Bohtan to a religious famil...

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Poet

Sherko Bêkes

1940 – 2013

Sherko Bêkes (1940–2013), the greatest of contemporary Kurdish poets and pioneer of the new Kurdish 'image poetry'. He was born in Sulaymani...