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Bachtyar Ali


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Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
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Bachtyar Ali Muhammed, also spelled as Bakhtiyar Ali or Bakhtyar Ali, (Kurdish: Bextyar Elî -بەختیار عەلی) Ali was born in the city of Slemani (also spelt as Sulaimani or Sulaymaniy), in Iraqi Kurdistan (also referred to as southern Kurdistan) in 1960. He is a Kurdish novelist and intellectual. He is also a prolific 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, several poetry collections as well as essay books. He has been living in Germany since the mid-1990s (Frankfurt, Cologne and most recently Bonn). In his academic essays, he has dealt with various subjects, such as the 1988 Saddam-era Anfal genocide cam ...more

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“این ترسناک نیست که انسان برده باشد، وحشتناک آن‌ست که انسان برده ای خوشبخت باشد”
Bachtyar Ali

“خدا انسان را فرشته نیافریده
اما از او می‌خواهد که فرشته باشد!؟”
Bachtyar Ali, غەزەلنوس و باغەکانی خەیاڵ ‌ ‌

“اگر عاشق پرنده ای شده ای، بايد حاضر باشی مانند پرنده زندگی كنی”
Bachtyar Ali, Ewaray Parwana

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