21st-century Kurdish writers

founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

author, writer, journalist

Turkish journalist of Kurdish ancestry (born 1989)

Iranian-Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer

Turkish journalist and statesperson (born 1961)

Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual

Syrian writer

Kurdish human rights activist, artist, and author

Yazidi writer

Kurdish scholar

Iraqi politician

Turkish journalist of Kurdish ancestry (born 1975)

Kurdish writer

Iraqi poet and writer

Kurdish Iranologist

Syrian journalist

Iraqi Kurdish poet

Iranian journalist, civil activist and political prisoner

Turkish writer of Kurdish ancestry (born 1954)

Kurdish writer and academic

Kurdish-Iraqi translator

syrian-Canadian author and human rights activist

Iraqi Kurdish politician

Iraqi first lady and politician

Turkish journalist and screenwriter of Kurdish ancestry (1976–2010)

Iraqi journalist

Iraqi writer

Kurdish poet, translator and editor

writer and governor of the Kurdistan province

Kurdish writer and translator from Kurdistan

Kurdish writer

kurdish lawyer and human rights activist