List of Kurdish poets and authors

The following is a list of people who have contributed to the Kurdish literature.[1]

11th century

  • Baba Tahir (ca. 1000-1060 AD), Kurdish poet and his poetry is written in the Luri dialect.[2]

16th century

17th century

18th century

  • Khana Qubadi (Xana Qubadî), (1700–1759), Kurdish poet, author of Şîrîn û Xesrew.
  • Mahmud Bayazidi (1797–1859), Kurdish writer, translator and historian.

19th century

20th century

  • Piramerd (1867–1950), Kurdish poet, writer, novelist and journalist, Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • Muhamed Amin Zaki (1880–1948), writer, historian and politician, Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • Taufiq Wahby (1891–1984), writer and linguist, Iraq.
  • Celadet Bedir Khan (Celadet Alî Bedirxan), (1893–1951), linguist, journalist and politician, founder of the Latin-based Kurdish alphabet.
  • Nuri Barzinji (1896–1958), poet, Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • Arab Shamilov (Erebê Şemo) (1897–1978), Kurdish writer and novelist, Armenia.
  • Rafiq Hilmi (1898–1960), Kurdish writer, literary analyst and politician, Iraq.
  • Cigerxwîn (Cegerxwîn), (1903–1984), Kurdish poet and writer, Turkey/Syria.
  • Abdulla Goran (1904–1962), Kurdish poet.
  • Osman Sabri (1905–1993), Kurdish poet, writer and journalist, Turkey/Syria.
  • Emînê Evdal (1906–1964), Kurdish writer and linguist, Armenia.
  • Alaaddin Sajadi (1907–1984), Kurdish writer, poet and academic, Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • Hecîyê Cindî (1908–1990), Kurdish writer, linguist and researcher, Armenia.
  • Qanate Kurdo (1909–1985), Kurdish writer, linguist and academic, Russia.
  • Qedrîcan (1911–1972), Kurdish poet and writer, Turkey/Syria.
  • Ibrahim Ahmad (1914–2000), Kurdish writer, novelist and translator, Iraqi Kurdistan/England.
  • Dildar, (Yonis Reuf), (1917–1948), Kurdish poet, Iraq
  • Hejar (Abdurrahman Sharafkandi), (1920–1990), Kurdish poet, writer, translator and linguist, Iran.
  • Hemin Mukriyani (Hêmin Mukriyanî), (1921–1986), Kurdish journalist and poet, Iran.
  • Ahmad Hardi (1922–2006), Kurdish poet, Iraqi Kurdistan/UK.
  • Karim Hisami (1926–2001), Kurdish writer, Iran/Iraq/Sweden.
  • Muhamad Salih Dilan (1927–1990), One of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry.
  • Shamil Asgarov (1928–2005), poet, researcher on the history and culture of the Kurds in Azerbaijan, translator.
  • Mahmud Baksi (1944–2001), Kurdish writer and journalist, Sweden.
  • Abdulla Pashew (1946), contemporary Kurdish poet, Iraqi Kurdistan/Sweden

References

  1. Shakely, Farhad. "Kerkūk Kurdistane". web.archive.org.
  2. Baba Tahir. "Kurdish Academy of Language". www.kurdishacademy.org.


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