Farhad Shakely

International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan, 2004

Born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk, he began publishing poetry in 1968. He has written 20 books, including: Project of a secret coup, 1973; A river of light flowing from the red sun, 1977; Acclivity, 1981; String, 1985; I engrave your picture on the walls of my jail, 1994; All my secrets are revealed, all your revelation is concealed, 2001; The smell of darkness (short stories) 1977.

In 1992 he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam u Zin of Ahmad-i Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic. Many of his poems have been translated into Persian, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Icelandic and Danish.