Zaradachet Hajo
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Zaradachet Hajo, (or Zerdeşt Haco),(1950- ) is a prominent Kurdish writer, linguist and researcher. He was born in Syria in 1950. He has studied linguistics, German and Iranian languages at the Free University of Berlin, and wrote his doctoral thesis on Indo-Iranian language studies. Since 1982, he has been teaching as the universities of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg. He has been the president of the Kurdish chapter of the literary organization PEN since 1998.
[edit] Works
Zaradachet Hajo has been involved in the translation of Bible into Kurdish language. He has also published many linguistic essays and papers in Kurdish newspapers and journals. He has published a collection of his poems in a book titled Songs from the exile.
[edit] External links
- The Kurdish Center of International PEN
- The historical development of the Syrian state and the situation of the Kurds in Syria, By Dr. Hajo, in German
- Holy Bible in Kurmanji Kurdish
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