- Ahmad Ghazi
Ahmad Ghazi is a famous Kurdish writer and translator. He was born in 1936 in
Mahabad . He received hisBachelor of Arts degree in English inTehran Higher Institute of Languages in 1958. He played an active role in IranianKurdistan struggles for political sovereignty in the 1970s, because of which he was imprisoned underShah 's rule for four years. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, he managed himself to write and translate literary and historical works both in Kurdish andPersian . He was the editor in Chief of Sirwe, a then popular cultural and literary magazine in Kurdish, from 1986 to 2006. He is also a selected member of theKurdish Language Academy in Iran .Published books
- A translation of
Ubayd Zakani 's "Moosh o Gorbe" ("The Mouse and the Cat") into Kurdish,Mahabad , Seyediyan, 1982.- "Desturi Zibani Kurdi" (A Grammar of
Kurdish Language ), both in Kurdish and Persian,Urumieh , Salahadin Publishers, 1988.- A translation of
Mark Twain 's "Those Extraordinary Twins" into Kurdish,Urumieh , Salahadin Publishers, 1990.Major Kurdish Essays in "Sirwe" Magazine
- A Criticism of Kurdish
Orthography , Vol.I, No. 3, pp. 14-9.- The Image of Woman in Kurdish Poetry, Vol. VI, No. 52, pp. 45-54.
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Blank Verse and Kurdish Poetry, Vol. VII, No. 64, pp. 41-5. - A Comparative Study of Sorani and Laki Dialects of Kurdish, Vol. IX, No. 88, pp. 32-6.- A journey into the Poetic World of Maref Aghaiee, Vol. XIV, No. 51, pp. 30-5.
- A New Attitude at two Poems by
Mahwi , Vol. XV, No. 164, pp. 14-9.-
Mastoureh Ardalan and Kurdish Poetry, Vol. XVI, No. 168, 34-9.Translated Works
Ahmad Ghazi has translated a large number of historical works from English and Persian into Kurdish. The frequently-referred titles of these works are Mehrdad Izadi's Genealogy of Kurdish Tribes and Jamshid Sedaghatkish's The Kurds of Pars.
References
[http://www.korizanisti.ir/%D8%A6%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%A6%D9%87%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C/tabid/67/Default.aspx Ahmad Ghazi in Kurdish Language Academy]
External links
* http://www.korizanisti.ir/default.aspx
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