Zeynelabidîn Zinar is a Kurdish

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...

 writer and researcher. He was born in the village of Hedhedk in the district of Reşkotan in 1953. He has been one of the main figures in the area of Kurdish

Kurdish language

Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

 folklore. Moreover, he has changed many classical Kurdish texts from Arabic

Arabic language

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 script to the Kurdish Latin

Latin

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-based script. Between 1986 and 2006, he has published around seventy books in the Kurdish language. His main work is a ten volume book on the Kurdish folklore and oral traditions, called Xwençe. It took him twelve years to complete this work, and its twelve volumes were published between 1989-1997 in Sweden

Sweden

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