Hesenê Metê (born 1957) is a prominent

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writer, novelist and translator. He was born in Erxanî near

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in south-eastern

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. He has been living in

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since the 1980s. He has translated works by

Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

and

Dostoyevski Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...

into

Works

#Merivên reben, Translation of

Poor Folk ''Poor Folk'' (russian: Бедные люди, ''Bednye lyudi''), sometimes translated as ''Poor People'', is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoevsky was in financial difficult ...

, 185 pp., Welat Publishers, 1991. . #''Smîrnoff'', Story, 95 pp., Welat Publishers, Stockholm, 1991. . #''Ardû'', çîrokên gelêrî, 173 pp., Welat Publishers, Stockholm, 1991. . #''Labîrenta cinan'', Novel, 197 pp., Welat Publishers, Huddinge, Sweden, 1994. . #''Epîlog'', Story, 141 pp., Nûdem Publishers, Järfälla, Sweden, 1998. . #''Keça Kapîtan'', Translation of ''The Captain's Daughter'' by

, 1998. #''Tofan'', Story, 88 pp., Apec Publishers, Spånga, Sweden, 2000. . #''Ansîklopediya Zarokan'' (Children's Encyclopaedia), with Amed Tigris, Mehmud Lewendi, Seyidxan Anter, Ali Ciftci, 236 pp., Apec Publishers, Sweden, 2004.

#''Gotinên gunehkar'', Novel, 151 pp., Avesta Publishers, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. . #''Li dêrê'', novel, 102 pp., Nûdem Publishers, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011. . #''Pêsîrên dayê'', Story, 130 pp., Apec Publishers, Spånga, Sweden, 2013. . #''Îşev û çîroka dawîn'', Story, 90 pp., Peywend Publishers, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014. #''Hefsar'', novel, 94 pp., Peywend Publishers, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018.

References

Works of ''Hesenê Metê'', Immigrant Institute
in Swedish). 1957 births Kurdish-language writers Living people Turkish Kurdish people Turkish emigrants to Sweden {{Kurd-writer-stub