Firat Cewerî is a

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writer, translator and journalist. He was born in the town of

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near

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in southeastern

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. In the 1980s, he emigrated to

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, where he lives now. He started writing in

in the 1980s. He served as the editor of the Kurdish journal ''Nûdem'' for about 10 years. He has written more than ten books in Kurdish and translated literary works of

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and

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into Kurdish.

Books

Mişk û Mirov
- Translation of the novel:

Of Mice and Men ''Of Mice and Men'' is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant worker, migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California ...

, Nûdem Publishers, 126 pp., , 1993. #Şevên Spî, Translation of the novel:

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, Nûdem Publishers, 79 pp., , 1993. #Çexov: Bexçeyê vîsne : piyeseke çar perde, Translation of the Play:

The Cherry Orchard ''The Cherry Orchard'' () is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by '' Znaniye'' (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg, via A.F. Marks Pu ...

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

, Nûdem Publishers, 92 pp., , 1995.
Gotinên Navdaran
Nûdem Publishers, 106 pp., 1995.
Girtî
Nûdem Publishers, 174 pp., 1996.
Kevoka Spî
Nûdem Publishers, 60 pp., 1996.
Kultur, Huner û Edebiyat
Nûdem Publishers, 423 pp., 1996. #Keça kurd zengê, Translation of a novel by Cemşid Bender, from Turkish, Nûdem Publishers, 127 pp., , 1997. #Dara hinarê : roman, Translation of a novel by

, Nûdem Publishers, 117 pp., , 1998.
Pêlên Derya Reş
Nûdem Publishers, 120 pp., 2000. #Emîl hê jî li Lönnebergayê dijî, Translation of a novel by

(''Emil i Lönneberga''), Nûdem Publishers, 163 pp., , 2000. #Sûmiyên Emîl yên nû, Translation of a novel by

(''Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga''), Nûdem Publishers, 155 pp., , 2000. #Hingura êvarê, Translation of a novel by

(''Skuggorna växer i skymningen''), Nûdem Publishers, 191 pp., , 2002. #Alfonsê sûm li ku ye?, Translation of a short story by

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(''Var är bus-Alfons?''), Nûdem Publishers, 27 pp., . #Antolojiya çîrokên Kurd (Anthology of Kurdish stories), two volumes, Nûdem Publishers, 2003. #Payiza Dereng, Nûdem Publishers, 407 pp., 2005. #Il matto, la Prostituta e lo Scrittore - Versione italiana (Calamaro Edizioni) 2022.

References

Biography of Kurdish Novelists (in Kurdish)Nûdem Journal
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ceweri, Firat 1959 births Living people Kurdish-language writers Turkish emigrants to Sweden Turkish Kurdish people Kurdish journalists