Cankurd
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- Born
- 1948
- Works
- 5
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- Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī
- Dilopeka xwîna dila
- Gundê dîna
- Selahdînê Eyûbî
- Zembı̂lfiroş
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- translator
- Languages spoken
- Kurdish
- Official website
- cankurd.wordpress.com
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- date of birth
- 1948-00-00
- official blog URL
- cankurd.wordpress.com
- writing language
- Kurdish
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Cankurd (born 1948 in Maydan) is a contemporary Kurdish poet and writer.
Born 1948 in the village of in northwestern Syria, he completed his studies in Afrin and Aleppo. Due to his political activism, he was imprisoned several times, until he left Syria for Germany in 1979. He writes in Kurdish, Arabic and German. He has translated some of the literary works of Shakespeare and Daphne du Maurier into Kurdish. He has also translated some poets of the contemporary Arab poet Nizar Qabbani into Kurdish.
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