Bayan Salman

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Bayan Salman (2019)

Bayan Salman (Kurdish به‌یان سه‌لمان; born 1961 in Kirkuk , Kurdistan , Iraq ) is a Kurdish-speaking writer, poet and translator who writes her works in Kurdish, Arabic and French. She has lived in Paris since 1998.

life and work

After finishing school in Kirkuk, she studied at the University of Baghdad, where she graduated in economic policy. From 1988 to 1992 she taught economics at Ranya Technical High School in Northern Iraq. After the uprising of the Kurds and Shiites in 1991 , she settled in Sulaimaniyya and worked with various NGOs. After numerous political unrest in Kurdistan, she moved to France in 1998. There she studied contemporary and French literature at the University of Paris VIII . After working for the Kurdish television station Tishk TV in Paris, she took over the management of Concept magazineand helped found Sardami Jn (L'Ère des femmes) magazine. In 2013 she founded the Kurdish-French magazine TRANSCULTURES. Bayan Salman has translated numerous works, including the novel Les Grottes de Haydrahodahus by the well-known Syrian writer Salim Barakat from Arabic into French, which was published by Editions Actes Sud in 2008. In 2016, she received the highest award given to writers by Kurdish Endeshe Verlag for her Kurdish-language novel Adams Nights (شه‌وانی ئاده‌م).

Novels, poetry and translations

  • 1994, Namoy ser u Herassi dimanakan « Smashed Figures», Collection of Kurdish Poems, Range Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 1996, Miratyakani Gor Halkaneke «The Legacy of a Undertaker », Collection of Kurdish Short Stories, Revue Goutar, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2006, Ana kama fi hikayat al-jenya “I'm like from a fairy tale world”, book of poems in Arabic, Range Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2008, Kouhouf haydrahodahus , “Les Grottes de Haydrahodahus”, novel by Salim Barakat, translation from Arabic into French, Éditions Actes Sud (France).
  • 2008, Boraq , Roman in Arabic, Al-Zaman Verlag, Syria.
  • 2008, Tilka Al-Gayma Al-Sakina “The Still Clouds”, Al-Zaman Verlag, Syria.
  • 2011, Nawakani madayi «The Descendants of Madayi», novel in Kurdish, Yad Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2012, Beser hatakani Xazna mamlook “Khazana, the Mamlook”, novel in Kurdish language, Yad Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2013, La barzayi Shorakanawa , “Von den Mauerzinnen”, novel in Kurdish, Yakeyti Nussaran Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2014, Candide ou L'optimisme de Voltaire, “Candide or the Optimism” by Voltaire, translation from French into Kurdish, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2015, Shawani Adam , “Adam's Nights”, novel in Kurdish, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2016, Rue des Boutiques obscures , novel by Patrick Modiano, translation from French into Kurdish, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2018, Yadashti Atr u Aguer “Memories of Perfume and Fire”, novel in Kurdish, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2019, Avin u Geng «Passion and War», Collection of Kurdish Poems, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2019 Les Métamorphoses , Ovide, «Metamorphoses» by Ovid, translation from French into Kurdish, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2020 Derya u xwana sharawakay Marjan , “The sea and the hidden dreams of Marjan”, novel in Kurdish language, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2020 Rhinocéros , Eugène Ionesco, "The Rhinoceros" by Eugène Ionesco, translation from French into Kurdish, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).
  • 2020 Balendakansh defren, "Even the birds land", novel in Kurdish, Endeshe Verlag, Sulymaniya Kurdistan (Iraq).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNj2XLLPvJI&t=1539s
  2. ^ University of Baghdad. Retrieved July 19, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ transcultures. Retrieved on July 19, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  4. ↑ ده‌رباره‌ی ئێمه‌. In: transcultures. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Les Grottes de Haydrahodahus . 2008, ISBN 978-2-330-08890-3 ( edenlivres.fr [accessed July 19, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Bayan Salman: شەوانی ئادەم. February 29, 2016, accessed July 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Home. In: ئه‌ندێشه. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ ناوەندی ڕۆشنبیریی ئەندێشە. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Salman, Bayan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES به‌یان سه‌لمان (Kurdish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish-speaking writer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkuk , Kurdistan , Iraq