1. Sherko Bekas was born on 2 May 1940 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region in Iraq as the son of the poet Fayak Bekas.
10 Facts About Sherko Bekas
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Sherko Bekas is widely regarded as one of the poets who founded contemporary Kurdish poetry.
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Sherko Bekas's poetry explores liberty, love, life, and nature while reflecting the contemporary political, cultural, and spiritual conditions of the Kurdish people.
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Sherko Bekes, the son of Fayaq Bekas and Shafiqa Saeedi, was born on 2 May 1940 in the Goizha neighborhood of Sulaymaniyah.
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Sherko Bekas was seventeen years old when he published his first poem in Zhin newspaper.
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In 1965, Sherko Bekas joined the Kurdish liberation movement and worked in the movement's radio station, The Voice of Kurdistan.
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Sherko Bekas died of cancer in Stockholm, Sweden on 4 August 2013.
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In 1971, Sherko Bekas introduced the "Ruwange" element into Kurdish poetry; this was a break from the strict traditional rules of poetry, such as rhyme.
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Sherko Bekas' works have been translated into Arabic, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian, French and English.
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Sherko Bekas has read his poems in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, United Kingdom, Russia, and Italy, where he was named honorary citizen of Milan.