Mehmet Tayfun alias Malmîsanij (born 1952 in Diyarbakır) is a Kurdish[1][2] author and linguist.
He studied at the University of Ankara, and was under arrest three times between 1975 and 1981 because of his political activities.
Malmîsanij is the first author who started modern Zazaki literature in the 1970s.
Some of his works have been translated into English, Arabic, French and Swedish.
He is a part of the "Grûba Xebate Ya Vateyî",[4] a group working on unifying the Zazaki language.