Brayim Younisi

After Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état in 1955 he was fired from the Iranian army and sentenced to death.

In his book, he described the way of living for Kurdish people in the 1920s in his hometown in Bane which is a very small town hidden in the beautiful Zagros Mountains.

The images he has created in his book گورستان غريبان (Stranger Cemetery) and دعا برای آرمن (A Pray For the Ārman) are remarkable in the Kurdish and Iranian novel writings history.

His death on 7 February 2012, almost on the same day as 200th birthday anniversary of Charles Dickens is noticeable, while he translated a few of his books such as A Tale of Two Cities.

He was the first governor of the Kurdistan province in Iran's first government after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 in Mehdi Bazargan's cabinet.