بەختیار عەلی
Bachtyar Ali Muhammed (Kurdish: بەختیار عەلی, also transcribed Bextyar Elî, Bakhtiyar Ali, or Bakhtyar Ali), was born in the city of Slemani in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1960. He is a Kurdish novelist and intellectual, a literary critic, essayist, and poet. Ali started out as a poet and essayist, but has established himself as an influential novelist from the mid-1990s. He has published six novels, and several collections of poetry and essays. Since the mid-1990s, Ali has been living in Germany (Frankfurt, Cologne and most recently Bonn). In his academic essays, he has dealt with various subjects, such as the 1988 Saddam-era Anfal genocide campaign, the relationship between the power and intellectuals and other philosophical issues. He often employs western philosophical concepts to interpret an issue in Kurdish society, modifying or adapting them to his context. In 2016 his novel Ghezelnus u Baxekani Xeyal (\"Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination\") was published in English under the title I Stared at the Night of the City . The first Kurdish-language novel to be published in English, it was translated by London-based journalist and translator Kareem Abdulrahman. In the same year, his novel Duwahamin Henari Dunya The World Last Pomegranate was translated into German by Rawezh Salim and Ute Cantera-Lang under the title Der letzte Granatapfel
کتێبەکان
ئاوڕەکەی ئۆرفیۆس
ئێوارەی پەروانە
ئەی بەندەری دۆست ئەی کەشتی دوژمن
تاماتەمی گوڵ
جەمشید خانی مامم کە هەمیشە با لەگەڵ خۆیدا دەیبرد
دواهەمین هەناری دونیا
شاری مۆسیقارە سپییەکان
غەزەلنوس و باغەکانی خەیاڵ - بەشی دووەم
غەزەلنوس و باغەکانی خەیاڵ - بەشی یەکەم
هەورەکانی دانیال
کۆشکی باڵندە غەمگینەکان
کەشتی فریشتەکان (کتێبی دووەم)