Tosinê Resîd
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Tosinê Reşîd (1941- ), is a contemporary Kurdish
Yazidi
writer, poet and playwright. He was born in the village of Koorakand (Kûrekend) in Armenia
. He studied physics and chemistry at the Pedagogy Institute and graduated in 1964. After the few years of working as teacher, he continued his studies in 1970 and received his PhD in chemistry in 1975. In the same year, he published his first book titled Kilamê Rê(Word of the Way). During the 70s, around 200 of his articles under the name Kurdish Encyclopaedia were used in cultural programs of Radio Yerevan
.
He published his first play based on the well known Kurdish folkloric epic Siyabend û Xecê in 1984. In 1993, he left Armenia and settled in Melbourn
, Australia
.
Kurdish people
The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
Yazidi
Yazidi
The Yazidi are members of a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-Iranian roots. They are primarily a Kurdish-speaking people living in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, with additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria in decline since the 1990s – their members emigrating to...
writer, poet and playwright. He was born in the village of Koorakand (Kûrekend) in Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
. He studied physics and chemistry at the Pedagogy Institute and graduated in 1964. After the few years of working as teacher, he continued his studies in 1970 and received his PhD in chemistry in 1975. In the same year, he published his first book titled Kilamê Rê(Word of the Way). During the 70s, around 200 of his articles under the name Kurdish Encyclopaedia were used in cultural programs of Radio Yerevan
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
.
He published his first play based on the well known Kurdish folkloric epic Siyabend û Xecê in 1984. In 1993, he left Armenia and settled in Melbourn
Melbourn
Melbourn is a large village in the far south west of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located next to the A10 just north of Royston. Melbourn has over 4,400 inhabitants...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Books
- Kilamê rê, Collection of Poems I, 1975.
- Zozan, Collection of Poems II, 1983.
- Nîvro, Collection of Poems III, 1987.
- Siyabend û Xecê, Play, 70 pp., Roja Nû Publishers, 1988. ISBN 917672025X
- Şeva bê Xew, Collection of Short Stories, Apec Publishers, Sweden, 2000.
- In Memory of Qanate KurdoQanate KurdoQanate Kurdo or Kanat Kalashevich Kurdoev, , was a Kurdish writer, linguist and academic. He was born in the village of Sûsiz near Kars in north-eastern Turkey. He attended a Kurdish school in Tbilisi. Many other Kurdish writers Qanate Kurdo or Kanat Kalashevich Kurdoev, (Russian: Курдоев, Канат...
, with Husên Hebeş, Germany, 2000. - Min Bêriya Şevên Spî Kiriye (I Miss the White Nights), Collection of Short Stories, 256 pp., Avesta Publishers, 2005.
External links
- Anthology of Kurdish Stories (in Kurdish).
- Min Bêriya Şevên Spî Kiriye.
- An Interview with Tosine Rashid, Avesta Kurd Online Journal (in Kurdish).