Sherko Bekas

Sherko Bekas was born on 2 May 1940 in Sulaymaniyah, the son of the poet Faiq Bekas. In 1965 he joined the Kurdish liberation movement and worked for its radio. In 1971 he launched, with other poets, the Rûwange movement, the "vision", which sought to renew Kurdish poetry. A refugee in Sweden in the eighties, he received in 1987 the Tucholsky scholarship of the Stockholm PEN club. He died in Stockholm on 4 August 2013.

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• PoetryButterfly Valleyدەربەندی پەپوولە (Derbendî Pepûle)Sherko Bekas · 1991Literature