Jila (Zhila) Hosseini (1964–1996), poet, writer, researcher and radio announcer, was born on September 22, 1964, in

Saqqez Saqqez ( ; fa, سقز ; ), also known as Saghez, Saqez, Saqqiz, Saqiz, and Sakīz, is the capital city of Saqqez County in Kurdistan Province, in northwestern Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population was 165,258. Etymology The nam ...

, Iran and was the first Kurdish woman to compose modern poems instead of classical poetry.

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Jila was born in Saqqez in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. She had a supporting family and Sheikh Abdul Qadir, her father's grandfather, was a calligrapher and poet. Zhila's father, Sheikh Mehran Hosseini, was a judge of justice and an intellectual. She was born into a traditional culture with cumbersome rules and liked to change those old traditions. Under the situation that all educational Centers including universities and Schools were closed caused by

Iranian Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution (1980–1983; fa, انقلاب فرهنگی: Enqelābe Farhangi) was a period following the Iranian Revolution, when the academia of Iran was purged of Western and non-Islamic influences (including traditionalist unpoli ...

, She got married at a young age but her tendency towards modernity influenced her private life and she divorced once. At the age of 32 while going to visit the great poet of Kurdistan, Sherko Bekas, she died in a car accident. After the death of Zhila, Sherko Bekas composed a poem for her: :I dreamed of a fairy angel :I have seen it myself :Jila is now among the clouds :She is sitting on a purple chair :And writes poetry :She is wearing a moonlit skirt

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New Kurdish poetry began its evolution several decades ago and naturally progressed to the advanced stages in Kurdish language literature. Zhila's poems in

Kurdish literature Kurdish literature (, ) is literature written in the Kurdish languages. Literary Kurdish works have been written in each of the four main languages: Zaza, Gorani, Kurmanji and Sorani. Ali Hariri (1009–1079) is one of the first well-known poets ...

helped to open new windows in modern poem. She was the first Kurdish woman poet to compose modern Kurdish poems. She was a pioneer in composing poetry in a modern style among female poets in Kurdistan. She was inspired by Sherko Bekas. There were two different stages in the evolution of her poems. First she didn't has her own language and style but in the second stage she found her own style of composing poems.

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Some of Jila's poems are published as follows: *Poetry book (Kurdish) گه شه ی ئه وین (''The joy of love''), first edition of Sanandaj, 1995. *Poetry book (Kurdish) قه‌لای راز (''Secret Castle''), first edition of Tehran, 1998. This book was published in three parts.Secret Casle Poem Book
Vejin Books, Ketab Online ::Part 1: Zhila's remaining Kurdish poems ::Part 2: A selection of her Kurdish short stories ::Part 3: The Persian poems of Zhila (she had chosen the title of Rain for this collection)

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