- Jalal Barzanji
Jalal Barzanji (born 1953) is a contemporary Kurdish poet and writer.
He has served on the board of Writers' Union and was Executive Director of Ministry of Culture in Iraqi Kurdistan. He has been living in
Canada since 1998 as a refugee after escaping Iraq where he was tortured and imprisoned because of his writings from 1986 to 1989. He was appointed as theEdmonton -PEN Canada Writer-in-Exile for the period 2007-2008. He helped establish the "Canadian Kurdish Friendship Association" and the Edmonton Immigrant Support Network Society. He has published six books of poetry and fiction and was a 2004 recipient of a "RISE award".Works
* "The Dawning of the Evening Snow", Collection of Poems, 1979.
* "Unwarm", Rashid Publishing, Baghdad, 1985.
* "War", Gew Books, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1996.
* "Holy Rain", Kurdish Ministry of Culture Publishing, 2002.
* "Memory of a Person Under the Wind", Bedrxan Publishers, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2006.
* "On Going back to Birth Place", Mnara Publishers, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2007.External links
* [http://www.legacymagazine.ab.ca/current_issue/contributors.html Legacy Magazine]
* [http://www.epl.ca/eplwriterinresidence.cfm Writer in Exile] ,Edmonton Public Library
* [http://www.edmontonpoetryfestival.com/poetsacrossborders.asp Poets Across Borders Project]
* [http://www.wordfest.com/festival_authors.php WordFest 2008]Persondata
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