Nari Mela Kake Heme

A photo of Nari

Nari (Kurdish: Narî) (1874-1944) is the pen name for Narî Mele Kekê Hemê, a Kurdish poet. He was born and died in Marivan. He had a close relationship to Mahmud Barzanji, Taher Begi Jaf and Qani.

Nari's poetry

Nari wrote lyric and mystic poems in Kurdish and Persian. The bulk of his poems are in the form of ghazal. He was mostly influenced by Nali and Mahwi among Kurdish poets and by Hafez among Persian poets.

References

1- Encyclopedia of Islam

2- Nari in Kurdish Wikipedia

3- Sajjadi Ala'edin, The history of Kurdish literature, Baghdad, 1951