Cankurd

Who is Cankurd?

Cankurd, is a contemporary Kurdish poet and writer. He was born in the village of Meydank in the north-east Syria. He completed his studies in Afrin and Aleppo. Due to political activism, he was imprisoned several times, until he left Syria for Germany in 1979. He writes in Kurdish, Arabic and German. He has translated some of the literary works of Shakespeare and Daphne du Maurier into Kurdish. He has also translated some poets of the contemporary Arab poet Nizar Qabbani into Kurdish.