Helîm Yûsiv (

Amûdê Amuda ( ar, عَامُودَا, ʿĀmūdā, ku, ئاموودێ, Amûdê) is a town in Al Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria close to the Syria–Turkey border. As a result of the ongoing civil war, Amuda is currently under the civil con ...

, 1967) is a

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

n Kurdish writer and lawyer. He studied laws at the University of Aleppo and has published in Lebanon, Turkey and Germany. He writes in both Kurdish and Arabic languages. Helîm_Yûsiv

Works (translated titles)

*''The Pregnant Man'' (1991, Arabic, Damascus, 1997 Kurdish, Istanbul, 2004, German, Münster) *'' The woman upstairs'' (1995, Arabic, Beirut, 1998, Kurdish, Istanbul) *'' The dead do not sleep'' (1996, Kurdish, Istanbul) *'' Sobarto'' (1999 Kurdish, Arabic, Beirut) *'' Mem without Zin'' (2003, Kurdish, Istanbul) *''Toothless Fear'' (2006, Kurdish, Istanbul)

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