Sherko Bekas

Sherko Bekas (Kurdish: SERKO Békés, born 2 May 1940 in Sulaymaniyah / Iraq; † August 4, 2013 in Stockholm) was an Iraqi poet of Kurdish nationality and language. He was the son of the poet Fayak Bekas.

Career

Sherko Bekas joined in 1965 the Kurdish movement under Mustafa Barzani and worked with the Kurdish radio station Voice of Kurdistan. He had to leave Iraq in 1986 under pressure from the government, and lived from 1987 to 1992 in Sweden exile. In 1992 he returned to Iraq.

Sherko Bekas takes an important place in the current Kurdish literature. He led in 1971 a new stylistic device in the literature, the so-called Rûwange. This Rûwange was a break with the traditional poetics. Examples can be found in the translation of " The Secret Diary Of A Rose" by Reingard and Shirwan Mirza with Renate Saljoghi. Sherko Bekas led in 1975 originating from the field of painting and sculpture poster poem a.

Many of his poems are short, but he still knows how to mystify trivial items. The poems often end in a surprising and sometimes shocking climax. His critics call this style As- sahil mumtana ' ( This simply unattainable ).

His works have been translated into Danish, Italian, Swedish and many other languages. In 1987, he won the Tucholsky Prize in Stockholm and in the same year he was a candidate for the Peace Prize of Florence. He is an honorary citizen of the city of Milan. A two-volume divan with 1000 pages unites all his poems.

Documents

• Literature of and over Sherko Bekas in the catalog that German national library
• Unionsverlag
• Biography and works of Sherko Bekas
• English translations of some poems of Sherko Bekas
• The work of Sherko Bekas, Immigrant institutet ( Swedish)

• Author
• Literature ( Kurdish )
• Poetry
• Honorary citizen in Lombardy
• Person ( Milan )
• Kurd
• Iraqi
• Born in 1940
• Died in 2013
• Man