Rafiq Sabir Explained

Rafiq Sabir (Kurdish: '''Refîq Sabîr'''; born in 1950) is a contemporary Kurdish poet.

He was born in Qaladzê in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1974, he received Bachelor of Arts degree from Baghdad University.^[1] He moved to Sweden in 1989. He writes in the sorani dialect. He belongs to the post-Abdulla Goran generation of modernists in Kurdish poetry.

Works

1. Karwansara, 146 pp., Uppsala, 1990.
2. Towards history : a short ideological historical study, 129 pp., Uppsala, 1991.
3. Werze berdine, 39 pp., Uppsala 1992.
4. Awêne û sêber : Komele honrawe, 88 pp., Arzan Publishers, Jönköping, 1996. .
5. Impiratoryayî lam : derbarey îslam, xêl û nasyonalîzm, 230 pp., Rabûn Publishers, Uppsala, 1998. .
6. Rûnbûnewe : honrawe, 111 pp., Rabûn Publishers, Uppsala, 2001. .

External links

• Rafiq Sabir, Immigrant-institutet (in Swedish)

Notes and References

1. Book: Langer, Jennifer. The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile. 2005. Five Leaves Publications. 978-0907123651. 322.