Salim Barakat (Arabic: سليم بركات, Kurdish: Selîm Berekat; born 1 September 1951 in Qamishli) is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet.

Barakat was brought up in the city of Qamishli in an area in northern Syria with a large Kurdish population and spent most of his youth there.

[1] His earliest major prose work, Al-Jundub al-Hadidi (The Iron Grasshopper), is an autobiography of his childhood in Qamishli.

[3] In the 2006 anthology Literature from the "Axis of Evil", an excerpt from his novel Jurists of Darkness (1985) in English was published by Words Without Borders.

[4] According to online magazine Literary hub, Barakat had been one of the official candidates for the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature.