Farhad Shakely

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Farhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk (At-Ta'mim) in Iraqi Kurdistan. He began publishing poetry in 1968. In the early 1970's he studies in the Kurdish department of the Baghdad University. He went to Iran in 1974 and Syria in 1975. He lived in Germany from Autumn 1977 to Summer 1978. Finally he settled in Sweden in the same year. In 1981, after studying for one year at the University of Stockholm, he went to Uppsala University where he received his PhD. He is now teaching in the same university. He published a Swedish-Kurdish Journal between 1985 and 1989 called Svensk-Kurdisk Journal. In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic. Many of his poems have been translated into Persian, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Icelandic and Danish.

Contents 1 Books 1.1 Writings 1.2 Translations 2 References

[edit] Books

[edit] Writings

He has written 20 books, including:

1. Project of a secret coup, in Kurdish, 1973.
2. A river of light flowing from the red sun, in Kurdish, Beirut, 1977.
3. The smell of darkness (short stories), in Kurdish, 1977.
4. Acclivity, in Kurdish, 1981.
5. Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, in English, Sweden, 1983. (Translated to several languages)
6. String, Sweden, 1985.
7. Kurdish artistic prose, in Swedish, Sweden, 1989.
8. I engrave your picture on the walls of my jail, in Kurdish 1994.
9. All my secrets are revealed, all your revelation is concealed, in Kurdish 2001.

[edit] Translations

1. Tuwan, Translation of the novel by Eva Boholm-Olsson, Pham Van Dôn, 28 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm , 1986. ISBN 91-86146-26-2
2. Alfons û cinawireke, Translation of the work by Gunilla Bergström, 29 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl., Stockholm, 1989. ISBN 91-86146-29-7. (Original title: Alfons och odjuret)
3. Ay filbaz, Alfuns Obiri!, Translation of the work by Gunilla Bergström, 25 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm, 1990. ISBN 91-86146-33-5. (Original title: Listigt, Alfons Åberg!)
4. Bahar-i Tazade, Translation of the work by Astrid Lindgren, 32 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm, 1990. (Original title: Vår i Bullerbyn)
5. Pipi, Kiçey Gorawîdirêj, Translation of the work by Astrid Lindgren, 24 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm, 1991. ISBN 91-86146-36-X (Original title: Känner du Pippi Långstrump?)
6. Evgeni Pasternak, Translation of the work by Boris Pasternak, 55 pp., Kulturfören. Sverige-Kurdistan, 1995. ISBN 91-972384-6-5
7. Tûte paqijiyê dike(Tûte gisik dedat), Translation of the work by Gunilla Wolde ( with Ali Çîftçî), 25 pp., Spånga : Apec, 1996. ISBN 91-89014-01-4 (Original title: Totte städar)
8. Tûte xanî çêdike. Translation of the work by Gunilla Wolde, (with Ahmed Cantekin), 25 pp., Spånga : Apec, 1996. ISBN 91-89014-02-2 (Original title: Totte bygger)
9. Pariya., Translation of the work by August Strindberg, 60 pp., Malmö : Rosengård, 2000. ISBN 91-89489-11-X (Original title: Paria)

[edit] References

1. Farhad Shakely in International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan. 2005
2. Farhad Shakely, Life for a Kurdish poet in Exile
3. Reflections of a Kurdish poet–An interview with Farhad Shakely
4. Ferhad Shakely, Immigrant Institutet (in Swedish)