Zeynelabidîn Zinar (born 1953) is a Kurdish writer and researcher.
[1] He was born in the village of Doğankavak in the district of Beşiri in 1953.
He has been one of the main figures in the area of Kurdish folklore.
Between 1986 and 2006, he has published around seventy books in the Kurdish language.
[2] His main work is a ten volume book on the Kurdish folklore and oral traditions, called Xwençe.