Ahmad Hardi (; 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a prominent
Kurdish
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poet.
He was born into an intellectual family in
Sulaimaniya
Sulaymaniyah or Slemani (; ), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is the capital of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. It is surrounded by the Azmar (Ezmer), Goizha (Goyje) and Qaiwan (Qeywan) Mountains in the northeast, Barana ...
in
Iraqi Kurdistan
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. He possessed a deep knowledge of classical Kurdish, Arabic and Persian poetry and has had an enduring influence on the modern Kurdish poetry. He was a leading figure in the Kurdish liberation movement.
After the
Algiers Accord, he moved to Iran in 1975 and later to
U.K.
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in 1993. His daughter
Choman Hardi
Choman Hardi (; born 29 January 1974) is a Kurdish poet and translator.
Background
Hardi was born in Sulaymaniyah on January 29th, 1974. The youngest among the 7 children of the famous Kurdish poet Ahmad Hardi.
Hardi fled Iraq along with her fa ...
is a well known Kurdish poet,
and his son
Asos Hardi is a prominent journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan and founder of ''
Hawlati'' and ''
Awena'' independent newspapers. His first collection of poems was first published in 1957 and has been re-published several times since then.
Books
* ''The Secret of Solitude'', 1957
See also
*
Nalî
Nalî (, 1797/1800–1855/56), also known as Mela Khidrî Ehmedî Šaweysî Mikâʾîlî, was a prominent Kurdish poet, scholar, and linguist from the Sulaymaniyah region in present-day Kurdistan Region, Iraq. He is regarded as one of the most in ...
*
Mahwi
Mahwi ( ''Mehwî''; full name: مەلا موحەمەد کوڕی عوسمان بەڵخی ''Mala Mohammed Osman Ballkhi'') (1830-1906) was one of the most prominent classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Kurdistan of Iraq. He studied in Sablakh ...
*
Piramerd
Tawfeq Mahmoud Hamza known as Piramerd () (1867 – 19 June 1950) was a Kurdish poet, writer, novelist and journalist. He was born in the ''Goija'' neighborhood of Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region. In 1926, he became the editor of the Kurdish n ...
*
Abdulla Goran
Abdullah Goran (, b. in 1904 in Halabja, Ottoman Empire, d. 1962 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan) was a leading Kurdish poet and translator of the 20th century.
Biography
Abdullah was born in Halabja in 1904 and received his education in local ...
*
Sherko Bekas
Sherko Fayaq Abdullah (; 2 May 1940 – 4 August 2013), was a Kurdish poet. He was born on 2 May 1940 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region in Iraq as the son of the poet Fayak Bekas. He is widely regarded as one of the poets who founded contempor ...
References
External links
The Passing of a Kurdish Icon – Ahmad Hardi Oct.29, 2006.
Ahmad Hardi International Journal of Kurdish Studies
The ''International Journal of Kurdish Studies'' () is an academic journal published by the Kurdish Library, and was edited by Vera Beaudin Saeedpour. It publishes scholarly articles about Kurdish culture, literature, and history. It was founded ...
, January 2005.
About Choman Hardi Kathleen McDermot.
A poem by Ahmad Hardi, translated by Dr. Kamal Mirawdeli.
Ahmed Hardi
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1922 births
2006 deaths
Kurdish poets
20th-century Iraqi poets
Writers from Sulaymaniyah
Iraqi Kurdish people
Kurdish journalists
Kurdish nationalists
Iraqi politicians
Iraqi expatriates in Iran
Iraqi journalists
21st-century Iraqi poets
Iraqi expatriates in the United Kingdom