Firat Cewerî

Firat Cewerîis a Kurdish writer, translator and journalist.

He was born in the town of Derik near Mardin in south-eastern Turkey.

He started writing in Kurdish in the 1980s.

He served as the editor of the Kurdish journal Nûdem for about 10 years.

He has written more than ten books in Kurdish and translated literary works of John Steinbeck, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Astrid Lindgren, Yaşar Kemal and Henning Mankell into Kurdish.