Abdullah Goran

[1] Abdulla was born in Halabja in 1904 and received his education in local schools and the pedagogical institute in Kirkuk.

As a teacher in Kirkuk, he continued his self-education by learning new languages and studying Turkish and Western literature.

He took part in radical political and social causes in the 1930s and was frequently arrested until the 14 July Revolution in 1958.

[1] Goran combined traditional Kurdish classical and folk verses with contemporary lyricism and diversified the subject matter.

He introduced blank verse, prose poem, and new rhyme schemes and abandoned the aruz.