Kovan Sindî
Kovan Sindî (* 1965 in Zaxo in Northern Iraq ) is a Kurdish poet and writer .
Life
Sindî was born in Zaxo and also completed his school education there. In 1984 he became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (DPK) . He became involved within the DPK against Saddam Hussein's totalitarian Baath party and fought as a peshmerga against the Iraqi army from 1987 onwards . In the late 1980s, many of his colleagues were arrested. During the Anfal operation after the end of the First Gulf War , he fled to the Turkish part of Kurdistan in August 1988 and lived there in a refugee camp in Diyarbakır .
In 1993 he emigrated to Germany . After a year in Hamburg , where he learned German, he went to Denmark. There he studied psychology at the University of Aarhus from 2001 . Sindî has been writing books since 1997. His literary works are written in his mother tongue, Kurdish.
Works
- Çirayê şev . Poems.
- Rojên Êtûn . Novel. Duhok, 2007.
- Nalînên Peravan . Novel. bergê 1, Weşanên Han, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940997-27-2 .
- Nalînên Peravan . Novel. bergê 2, Weşanên Han, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-94040997-02-3 .
- Feryadên Burcan . Novel. Weşanên J&J, Amed 2014, ISBN 978-605-4852-48-2 .
- Bagerên Reş . Novel. Weşanên J&J, Amed 2016, ISBN 978-605-9302-37-1 .
- Cengel . Novel. Weşanên J&J, Amed, Adar 2017, ISBN 978-605-9302-82-1 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sindî, Kovan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurdish poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zaxo , Northern Iraq |