Cegerxwîn

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Cegerxwîn , real name Şehmus Hasan ( Kurdish : Şêxmûs Hesen ; * 1903 with Mardin ; † October 22, 1984 Stockholm ) was a well-known Kurdish poet and writer of the 20th century.

He was born in 1903 in the village of Hisar near Mardin. In 1914 he and his family fled the fighting of the First World War to Amude in what is now Syria . Cegerxwîn - which means blood of the heart - studied theology and became a clergyman in 1921.

In 1946 he moved to Qamishli and became politically active. In the same year he became chairman of the Civata Azadî û Yekîtiya Kurd . In 1948 he became a member of the Syrian Communist Party and in 1954 the party's candidate for the Syrian parliament. In 1957 he resigned from the party and founded the Azadi (Freedom) organization, which was later merged with the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria . In 1963 he was imprisoned in Damascus .

In 1969 he went to the Kurdish northern Iraq and participated in the Mustafa Barzani uprising . In 1973 he went to Lebanon , where he collected a collection of Kîme Ez? (Who am I?) Published. In 1976 he returned to Syria, only to flee to Sweden in 1979 . At that time he was already 76 years old. There he published other works. He died in Stockholm at the age of 81. His body was buried in Qamishli.

Works

Poems

  • 1. Diwan Dîwana yekem: Prîsk û Pêtî , 1945 Damascus.
  • 2. Diwan Dîwana diwem: Sewra Azadî , 1954 Damascus.
  • 3. Diwan Dîwana siyem: Kîme Ez? , 1973 Beirut .
  • 4. Diwan Dîwana çarem: Ronak , Roja Nû Verlag, 1980 Stockholm.
  • 5. Diwan Dîwana pêncem: Zend-Avista , Roja Nû Verlag, 1981 Stockholm.
  • 6. Diwan Dîwana şeşem: Şefeq , Roja Nû Verlag, 1982 Stockholm.
  • 7. Diwan Dîwana heftem: Hêvî , Roja Nû Verlag, 1983 Stockholm.

Language and culture

  • Destûra Zimanê kurdî (grammar of the Kurdish language), 1961 Baghdad .
  • Ferheng, perçê yekem (Dictionary, 1st part), 1962 Baghdad.
  • Ferheng, perçê diwem (Dictionary, Part 2), 1962 Baghdad.

history

  • Tarîxa Kurdistan (History of Kurdistan), 3 volumes, 1985, 1987, Stockholm.

literature

  • Gundî Dilberz: The Kurdish poet Djagarchun . Cologne , 1987 . Publisher Komkar e. V.

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personal data
SURNAME Cegerxwîn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Şêxmûs Hesen (Kurdish name); Scheickmus Hasan (German name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH at Mardin
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1984
Place of death Stockholm