Sherzad Hassan

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Sherzad Hassan (Kurdish شێرزاد حەسەن), born 1951 in Erbil , Kurdistan ( Iraq ) is a Kurdish- speaking writer , poet and translator .

life and work

Sherzad Hassan grew up in the Kurdish city of Erbil in a Muslim family and was sent to a Koran school ( madrasa ) by his parents at a young age to learn Islamic values. At the age of thirteen he began to rebel and, despite being a minor, began reading Western literature and books banned in Iraq against his family's wishes. He studied humanities at the University of Baghdad and graduated in English literature in 1975. He has translated numerous works from English into Kurdish, including " Look back in Anger " ( John Osborne ), " Marat / Sade " ( Peter Weiss ), " King Lear " ( William Shakespeare ), "An Angel descended in Babylon" (“ An angel comes to Babylon ”) ( Friedrich Dürrenmatt ) as well as poems, short stories and essays.

In 1983, Sherzad Hassan published his first collection of nine short stories entitled "Loneliness". In 1988 his six short stories "The Black Rose" were published, which helped him achieve his breakthrough.

Together with other authors of his generation, including Bakhtyar Ali, Mariwan Qani and Rebin Hardi, he founded a new intellectual movement in Sulaimaniyya, mainly by holding seminars, thereby creating previously unknown possibilities of articulation. The same group began in 1991 to publish the philosophical journal Azadi (Freedom) (Kurdish: ئازادی) and then the journal Rahand “Dimension” (Kurdish: رەهەند). Sherzad Hassan gave numerous interviews in English and Kurdish on various topics from religion and social politics.

He is one of the most important representatives of contemporary literature in Kurdistan. He gained fame with his numerous short stories and prose works such as "The Black Rose", "The Castle and My Father's Dogs" and "The Solitude", which he enriched with naturalistic elements. Because of his critical attitude towards politics, social dogmas and above all religion, he was often threatened in his home country, whereupon he fled to Finland in 1997. There he began to work on the novel “The Last Night in which Jesus Descended”, which was published in 2012 in the Kurdish language ( Sorani ). As a critic of Islam, he often questions the basic values ​​of Islam in his essays and lectures, which is why the fatwa was pronounced against him . He vehemently campaigns for the rights of women, addresses taboo topics such as sexuality, corruption and honor killing, and opposes the country's educational system.

Awards

So far, he has been awarded six prizes by the autonomous Kurdish government and the Kurdish parties. a. opposed to civil war, corruption etc.

Publications

Short stories

  • Loneliness. Nine stories. Publishing House AlJahez, Baghdad 1983.
  • The black rose. Six stories. Kurdish Publishing House, Baghdad 1988.
  • The city of straw men. Fifteen stories. Aras Publishiers, Erbil 1995.
  • The evening of the old butterflies. Six stories. Aras Publishiers, Erbil 2008.

Novels

  • My father's castle and dogs. Xazalnus, Sulaimaniyya 1996.
  • The fog over the monastery. Aras Publishers, Erbil 2003.
  • The steppe of the killed deer. Khak, Sulaimaniyya 2004.
  • The nasal speaking woman. Kurdish Culture Center, London 2005.
  • The spider's dream. Xazalnus, Sulaimaniyya 2006.
  • The woman on the minaret. Aras Publishers, Erbil 2007.
  • The last night that Jesus descended. Xasalnus, Sulaimaniyya 2012.

Essays

  • The beggars of peace; 2013
  • The unbearability of a bookless world; 2014
  • Coffin factory; 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brwa Sadiq: 'The night in which Jesus descended' by Sherzad Hassan Ü .: Rawezh Salim & Ute Cantera-Lang. July 7, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Markus Müller: Kurdistan: A Utopia. In: ORF - Mittagsjournal. June 24, 2017, accessed December 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hassan, Sherzad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES H̱esen, Şêrzad (transliteration); شێرزاد حەسەن (Kurdish in Arabic script)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish-speaking writer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbil , Kurdistan ( Iraq )