Serdar Roşan is a contemporary 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, poet and translator. He was born in Diyarbakir

Diyarbakir

Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey...

 and after the 1980 coup emigrated to Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. He has published two books of poetry and three collections of short stories and Kurdish legends. He has also translated nine books from foreign languages into Kurdish including classic works by Cervantes

Cervantes

-People:*Alfonso J. Cervantes , mayor of St. Louis, Missouri*Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, 16th-century man of letters*Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban composer*Jorge Cervantes, a world-renowned expert on indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation...

, Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....

, Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 and Jack London

Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...

. He is a member of the Association of Kurdish Writers in Sweden.

Books

1. Çîrokên hezar û şevekê, 143 pp., Nûdem Publishers, Sweden, 1998.
2. Bi xatirê silehan, translation of A Farewell to Arms
   A Farewell to Arms
   A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway concerning events during the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The book, which was first published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance...
   
   , 345 pp., Nûdem Publishers, Sweden, 2000, ISBN 9789188592507.
3. Mircana qelew, translation of Boule de suif
   Boule de Suif
   Boule de Suif is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled "Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre"...
   
   , 127 pp., Nûdem Publishers, Sweden, 2000, ISBN 9789188592491.
4. Destanên Kurdî: ji zargotina kurdî, A Collection of Kurdish legends, with Reşo Zîlan
   Reso Zîlan
   Reşo Zîlan is a contemporary Swedish writer, translator and linguist of Kurdish origin. He was born in Turkey and emigrated to Sweden in 1973. He is currently the president of the Language and Literature Department of the Kurdish Institute of Paris. -Books:#Translation of Arhuaco Sierra Nevada, by...
   
   , Kurdish Cultural Foundation in Stockholm, 2004, ISBN 9789756282304.
5. Dara gozê, Collection of short stories, 133 pp., Doz Publishers, Istanbul, 2005, ISBN 9789756876589.
6. Bazên welat, Poems, 64 pp., Doz Publishers, Istanbul, 2005, ISBN 9789756876572.
7. Xencer, Poems, 64 pp., Doz Publishers, Istanbul, 2007, ISBN 9789944227216.
8. Don Kîşot, translation of Don Quijote, 519 pp., Doz Publishers, Istanbul, 2007, ISBN 9789944227261.