Abdulla Pashew

Abdulla Pashew

Abdulla Pashew, or Ebdulla Peşêw, is a well-known Kurdish poet. He was born in 1946 in Hewlêr, Iraqi Kurdistan. He studied at the Teachers' Training Institute in Hewlêr (Erbil), and participated in the Foundation Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union in Baghdad in 1970. In 1973 he went to the former Soviet Union, and in 1979 he received an M.A. in pedagogy with a specialisation in foreign languages. In 1984 he was granted a PhD in Philology from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences. For the next five years he was a professor at al-Fatih University in Tripoli, Libya. He has lived in Finland since 1995.

He published his first poem in 1963 and his first collection in 1967. Since then he has published eight collections. The latest, "Berew Zerdeper" (Towards the Twilight), was published in Sweden in 2001. He has also translated a number of writers and poets into Kurdish, including Walt Whitman and Alexandr Pushkin.

References

* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SBL/is_18/ai_n13784451 International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan. 2005]
* [http://www.mukkula.org/mukkula_vanha/kirjailijat/kirjailijat-lyhyt-englanti.htm Lahti International Writers' Reunion, Finland ]
* [http://www.barzan.com/pashew.html Selected Poems by Abdulla Pashew translated into English by Rikki Ducornet]
* [http://www.pashew.netfirms.com/berew-zerdeper/berew_zerdeper.htm Towards the Twilight (in Kurdish)]


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