Ahmad Ghazi is a famous Kurdish

Kurdish people

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 writer and translator. He was born in 1936 in Mahabad

Mahabad

-Culture:Muhammad Qazi translated more than 70 important literary works into Persian. Other writers and poets have hailed from Mahabad in the 19th and 20th century including Wafaei , Hejar , Hêmin , Abdorrahamn Zabihi and Giw Mukriyani...

. He received his Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 degree in English

English language

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 in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 Higher Institute of Languages in 1958. He played an active role in Iranian Kurdistan struggles for political sovereignty in the 1970s, because of which he was imprisoned under Shah

Shah

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's rule for four years. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, he managed himself to write and translate literary and historical works both in Kurdish and Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

. He was the editor in Chief of Sirwe, a then popular cultural and literary magazine in Kurdish, from 1986 to 2006. He is also a selected member of the Kurdish Language Academy in Iran

Kurdish Language Academy in Iran

- Establishment :Kurdish Language Academy in Iran was established in Tehran in 2002 when the First Conference on Kurdish Language Teaching was held in 2002. More than 150 Iranian Kurdish writers, academicians, linguists and journalists participated in this conference and a dozen of articles on the...

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Published books

- A translation of Ubayd Zakani's Moosh o Gorbe (The Mouse and the Cat) into Kurdish, Mahabad

Mahabad

-Culture:Muhammad Qazi translated more than 70 important literary works into Persian. Other writers and poets have hailed from Mahabad in the 19th and 20th century including Wafaei , Hejar , Hêmin , Abdorrahamn Zabihi and Giw Mukriyani...

, Seyediyan, 1982.

- Desturi Zibani Kurdi (A Grammar of Kurdish Language

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....

), both in Kurdish and Persian, Urumieh, Salahadin Publishers, 1988.

- A translation of Mark Twain

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's Those Extraordinary Twins into Kurdish, Urumieh, Salahadin Publishers, 1990.

Major Kurdish Essays in Sirwe Magazine

- A Criticism of Kurdish Orthography

Orthography

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, Vol.I, No. 3, pp. 14-9.

- The Image of Woman in Kurdish Poetry, Vol. VI, No. 52, pp. 45-54.

- Blank Verse

Blank verse

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 and Kurdish Poetry, Vol. VII, No. 64, pp. 41-5.

- A Comparative Study of Sorani and Laki Dialects of Kurdish, Vol. IX, No. 88, pp. 32-6.

- A journey into the Poetic World of Maref Aghaiee, Vol. XIV, No. 51, pp. 30-5.

- A New Attitude at two Poems by Mahwi

Mahwi

Mahwi or Mehwî , , was one of the most prominenet classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Iraq. He studied in Sablakh and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan. He became a judge in the court of Sulaimaniya, in today's Iraq, in 1862, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to Istanbul and...

, Vol. XV, No. 164, pp. 14-9.

- Mastoureh Ardalan

Mastoureh Ardalan

Mah Sharaf Khanom Mastoureh Ardalan or Mastura Ardalan was a Kurdish poet and writer. She was born in Sanandaj in north-western Iran and deceased in Sulaymaniyah in present-day north-eastern Iraq. She was a member of the feudal aristocracy in the court of the Ardalan principality centered in Senna...

and Kurdish Poetry, Vol. XVI, No. 168, 34-9.

Translated Works

Ahmad Ghazi has translated a large number of historical works from English and Persian into Kurdish. The frequently-referred titles of these works are Mehrdad Izadi's Genealogy of Kurdish Tribes and Jamshid Sedaghatkish's The Kurds of Pars.

External links

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