Bachtyar Ali

Who is Bachtyar Ali?

Bachtyar Ali Muhammed, also spelled as Bakhtiyar Ali or Bakhtyar Ali, Ali was born in the city of Slemani, in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1960. He is a Kurdish novelist and intellectual. He is also a prolific literary critic, essayist and poet. Ali started out as a poet and essayist, but has established himself as an influential novelist from the mid-1990s. He has published six novels, several poetry collections as well as essay books. He has been living in Germany since the mid-1990s. In his academic essays, he has dealt with various subjects, such as the 1988 Saddam-era Anfal genocide campaign, the relationship between the power and intellectuals and other philosophical issues. He often employs western philosophical concepts to interpret an issue in Kurdish society, but often modifies or adapts them to his context.