Ordîxanê Celîl

Who is Ordîxanê Celîl?

Ordîxanê Celîl was a Kurdish writer and academic. Born in Yerevan, he entered the Philology department of University of Yerevan in 1951 and graduated in 1956. He was appointed as the Kurdish studies chair of University of Lenningrad in 1957. He worked for three years at the Radio of Yerevan as its first Kurdish anchor. He visited Iraqi Kurdistan in 1958, where he conducted research on the Kurdish language. For many years, he worked on collecting Kurdish folk stories and poetry alongside his brother Jalile Jalil and sister Cemîle Celîl. His archive contains more than 100,000 Kurdish proverbs many of which are still unpublished.