Ata Nahai is a Kurdish-Iranian novelist
and short story writer who writes in
Sorani
Central Kurdish, also known as Sorani Kurdish, is a Kurdish dialect or a language spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran. Central Kurdish is one of the ...
Kurdish.
He was born in
Baneh in 1960. He was graduated from high school in 1978, receiving a diploma of literature. As to the revolutionary atmosphere of Iran in 1979 and the universities being closed for the next four years he could not continue his studies. He began his literary career by writing short stories in Kurdish (Sorani) and producing essays on the art of fiction. He has published three collections of short stories and three novels in Kurdish as well as translating a number of world short stories and literary essays into Kurdish. In the First Conference on Teaching Kurdish language, held in
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
in 2002, he won the first vote of the elections and afterwards became the head of the
Kurdish Language Academy in Iran. In 2005 Ata Nahai was awarded the Aras prize for
Kurdish literature
Kurdish literature ( or ) is literature written in the Kurdish languages. Literary Kurdish works have been written in each of the six main Kurdish languages: Zaza language, Zaza, Gorani language, Gorani, Kurmanji, Sorani, Laki language, Laki and S ...
. He was also awarded the
Ahmad Hardi
Ahmad Hardi (; 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a prominent Kurdish language, Kurdish poet.
He was born into an intellectual family in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan. He possessed a deep knowledge of classical Kurdish, Arabic and Persian poetry and h ...
Prize for Creativity in
Sulaymaniyah in 2008.
Works
* ''Zrike'' (''The Scream''), a collection of short stories in Kurdish,
Baneh, Naji Publishers, 1993.
* ''Tengane'' (''Dilemma''), a collection of short stories in Kurdish, Baneh, the writer's, 1995.
* ''Gulli Shoran'' (''Shoran Flower''), a novel in Kurdish,
Saghez, Mohamadi publishers, 1998.
* ''Ballendekani dem Ba'' (''Birds Blowing with the Wind''), a novel in Kurdish,
Sanandaj, Jiyar publishers, 2002.
* ''Grewi Bakhti Hallale'' (''Bet on Halala's Fate''), a novel in Kurdish,
Sulaymaniah, Ranj Publishers, 2007.
Translations
Nahai has translated
Houshang Golshiri's Shazde Ehtejad into Kurdish. He has also translated
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera ( ; ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship ...
's 'the Kafkaesque World' into Kurdish as well as a number of other short stories by famous world writers.
References
Ata Nahai's biography.also includes the full list of his works
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20071223184944/http://www.korizanisti.ir/default.aspx
Iranian Kurdish people
Kurdish-language writers
People from Baneh
Iranian male novelists
Iranian novelists
Iranian translators
Living people
Kurdish scholars
Translators to Kurdish
Iranian male short story writers
1960 births
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