Zaradachet Hajo

Zaradachet Hajo also Zerdeşt Haco (* 1950 in Syria) is a Kurdish linguist, author and translator.

Life

Hajo studied at the Free University of Berlin. He received his Ph.D. in 1979 in Berlin on the subject of the study of Indo -Iranian languages. Since 1982 he has taught at the universities of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg.

In the years 1998-2013 Hajo was the chairman of the Kurdish PEN Centre, which has its headquarters in Germany, but plans to move the Aktivltäten to Diyarbakir in Turkey.

Works

Hajo has worked in the Vergangenheitan on a translation of the Bible in the Kurmanji - Kurdish and published his linguistic studies in Kurdish newspapers and magazines. A collection of his poems was published under the English title Songs from the Exile.

Poems of the German- Kurdish Nazif Telek he transferred into Kurdish.

Publications

• Indo- Iranian language studies (20 lessons for German ). Dissertation at the Free University, Berlin in 1979, printed 1982.
• The Historical Development of the Syrian State and the situation of the Kurds in Syria, 2005. Via the Syrian Kurds ( en. )

• Nazif Telek: longing for freedom: poems. Kurdish and German. Zambon, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-88975-054-0.