Ферхад Шакели: Өмір және шығармашылығы

Ferhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post Goran period. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk in Iraq. He began publishing poetry in 1968. In the early 1970s he studied in the Kurdish department of the Baghdad University. He joined the Kurdish national movement under the leadership of Mustafa Barzany in 1974 and went to Syria in 1975. He lived in Germany from Autumn 1977 to Summer 1978. Finally he settled in Sweden in the same year. In 1981, after studying for one year at the University of Stockholm, he went to Uppsala University where he studied Iranian languages. He is now teaching in the same university. He published a Swedish Kurdish Journal between 1985 and 1989 called Svensk Kurdisk Journal. Moreover, he published a literary Kurdish magazine, Mamosta y Kurd (31 issues) between 1985 and 1996. In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic. Many of his poems have been translated into Persian, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Icelandic and Danish.

Tuwan, Translation of the novel by Eva Boholm Olsson, Pham Van Dôn, 28 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm, 1986. Alfons û cinawireke, Translation of the work by Gunilla Bergström, 29 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl., Stockholm, 1989. (Original title: Alfons och odjuret)
Ay filbaz, Alfuns Obiri!, Translation of the work by Gunilla Bergström, 25 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm, 1990. (Original title: Listigt, Alfons Åberg!) Bahar i Tazade, Translation of the work by Astrid Lindgren, 32 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm, 1990. (Original title: Vår i Bullerbyn)
Pipi, Kiçey Gorawîdirêj, Translation of the work by Astrid Lindgren, 24 pp., Kurdiska kulturförl, Stockholm, 1991. (Original title: Känner du Pippi Långstrump?) Evgeni Pasternak, Translation of the work by Boris Pasternak, 55 pp., Kulturfören. Sverige Kurdistan, 1995. Tûte paqijiyê dike(Tûte gisik dedat), Translation of the work by Gunilla Wolde ( with Ali Çîftçî), 25 pp., Spånga : Apec, 1996. (Original title: Totte städar)
Tûte xanî çêdike. Translation of the work by Gunilla Wolde, (with Ahmed Cantekin), 25 pp., Spånga : Apec, 1996. (Original title: Totte bygger)
Pariya., Translation of the work by August Strindberg, 60 pp., Malmö : Rosengård, 2000. (Original title: Paria)
String, Translation of the poem by Abdurrahman Ahmad Wahab & Jessica Johnston, excerpt, Zoland Poetry Volume 2, 2008. .