Eskerê Boyîk (born 1941) is a

Yazidi Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The ma ...

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poet and writer. He was born into a

family at the village of Qundexsaz in

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. He went to school in his village and later in the village of Elegez. He continued his studies in

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, and graduated in 1966. He has written many articles in

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and

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. He is noted for his review of Soviet Kurdish literature. In the 1960s, he began writing poetry and articles in Kurdish.''Di destpêka salên 2000’î de Rojnameya Riya Teze xebata xwe bi çar kesan berdewam dikir: Emerîkê Serdar (Berpirsiyarê Giştî-Redaktor), Grîşayê Memê (Cîgirê Redaktor), Rizganê Cango (Katibê Cabdar) û Mirazê Cemal (Nûçegihan). Sebaret vê nivîsarê min xwe gihand Dîrokzan-Nivîskar Celîlê Celîl û Şaîr-Nivîskar Eskerê Boyîk û hîn bûm ku niha bi tenê Grîşayê Memê û Mirazê Cemal mane li rojnamê.'' He is now living in

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Books

#Şiverê, Poem, Yerevan, 1966. #Kulîlkên Çiya, Poem, Yerevan, 1975. #Sinco keça xwe dide mêr, Play, Yerevan, 1980. #Tîrênc, Poem, Yerevan, 1987. #Mem û Zîn, Play, Roja Nû Publishers, Stockholm, 1989,

#Li Çiya, Short Story, Yerevan, 1991. #Duaya Serê Sibê, Poem, 80 pp., Roja Nû Publishers, Sweden, 1997. #Oda Çîrokan 1, Poems for Children, 104 pp., Roja nû Publishers, 1997, . #Kulîlkên Birîndar, Poem, 288 pp., Stockholm, 1998, . #Govenda Herfan, Poems for Children, Stockholm, 2002.

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