Ferhad Shakely [SEP] date of birth
Ferhad Shakely
Ferhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post-Goran period. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk in Iraq. He began publishing poetry in 1968. In the early 1970s he studied in the Kurdish department of the Baghdad University. He joined the Kurdish national movement under the leadership of Mustafa Barzany in 1974 and went to Syria in 1975. He lived in Germany from Autumn 1977 to
Farhad Shakely in International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan. 2005
- Farhad Shakely, Life for a Kurdish poet in Exile
- Reflections of a Kurdish poet–An interview with Farhad Shakely
- Ferhad Shakely, Immigrant Institutet (in Swedish)
- My Soul is Intoxicated and my Body is Ruined by a Goblet of Love, in:Orientalia Suecana, Vol. LI-LII (2002–2003), pp. 399–404.