Têmûrê Xelîl (born 1949) is a contemporary
Yezidi-Kurdish journalist, writer and translator. He is a member of the
Kurdish Institute of Paris
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, editor of the Kurdish journal ''Roja Nû'' and lives in
Sweden
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.
Biography
He was born in
Yerevan
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,
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
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(Armenian SSR) and after receiving a bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics, worked as a math teacher in the Kurdish village of
Sipan
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for three years. From 1977 to 1992, he worked as a reporter and later as the head of the cultural section in the Kurdish newspaper ''
Rya Teze''. From 1981 to 1984 he also served as the editor of the Kurdish section of
Radio Yerevan. From 1992 to 1997, he was the deputy of ''Golos Kurda'', a newspaper focused on Kurdish issues published in
Russian
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Translations
#''Kurdên Tirkîyê di dema herî nû da'' (Kurds of Turkey in the Modern Era), translation of M.A. Hasratyan's book, Kurdish Institute of Brussels, 1994.
#''Pirsa Kurdan (1891 - 1917)'', translation of ''Курдистан и курдская проблема'' (Kurdistan and the Kurdish Problem) (1964) by M.S. Lazarev from Russian to Kurdish, Roja Nû Publishers, Stockholm, 1999, 496 p.,
#''Împêrîyalîzm û pirsa Kurdan (1917-1923)'', translation of ''Imperializm i Kurdskiy Vopros''(Imperialism and the Kurdish Issue (1917–1923))(1989) by M.S. Lazarev from Russian to Kurdish, Roja Nû Publishers, Stockholm, 2002, 388 pp.,
Books
#''Bahar'', with Nado Maxmudov, Collection of Kurdish Folklore, Yerevan, 1989, 280 pp., ISBN VF0918
References
Biography of Kurdish Novelists 2005. (in Kurdish)
Biography of Têmûrê Xelîl Center of Kurdish Writers, November 2008 (in Kurdish)
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1949 births
Living people
Writers from Yerevan
Kurdish journalists