Nazand Begikhani

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Nazand Begikhani (born 1964) is a contemporary Kurdish writer, poet and researcher.

Nazand Begikhani was born in Koya in Iraqi Kurdistan and has been living in exile since 1987 when she sought refugee status in Denmark. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Sorbonne, and published her first collection of poems in 1995. She has also translated works of Baudelaire and T. S. Eliot into Kurdish. Her translations into English have been published by the Poetry Magazine in the United Kingdom. She is also an active advocate for women's rights and is the founding member of Kurdish Women Action against Honour Killing (KWAHK). She has worked with Kurdish Institute of Paris and Kurdish Cultural Centre in London.

[edit] Works

• Yesterday of Tomorrow, Collection of Poetry, Paris, 1995.
• Celebrations, Collection of Poetry, Aras Publishers, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2004.
• Colour of Sand, Collection of Poetry, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2005.
• Bells of Speech, Amit Books Publishers, 64 pp., 2007. ISBN: 0900055111

[edit] External links

• Nazand Begikhani, Exiled Writers Ink!.
• Nazand Begikhani, New Writing Partnership.
• Poetry Reading by Nazand Begikhani, British House of Commons, May 2007.
• Poetry Magazine, No.17, 2001.
• Nazand Begikhani, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 25 December 2006.
• Interview with women's rights campaigner Dr Nazand Begikhani, June 2006.

Persondata
NAME	Begikhani, Nazand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Kurdish writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iraqi Kurdistan
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH