List of Kurdish poets and authors
The following is a list of Kurdish poets and authors:
9th century
10th-15th century
16th century
- Sherefxan Bidlisi
- Şêx Şemsedînê Exlatî
- Melayê Cizîrî
- Asenath Barzani
- Feqiyê Teyran
- Yusuf Yaska
- Elî Teremaxî
17th century
18th century
- Khana Qubadi, classic poet from southeastern Kurdistan, Iran.
- Almas Khan-e Kanoule'ei, classic poet and author of Kurdish Shahnameh.
- Marif Nodeyi
- Xelîlê Sêrtî
- Khulam Rada Khan Arkawazi, classic poet and ascetic from southeastern Kurdistan, Iran.
- Khâlid-i Shahrazuri
- Şeyda Hewramî
- Mahmud Bayazidi
- Nalî
- Yaqub Maydashti, classic poet from southeastern Kurdistan, Iran.
19th century
- Mastoura Ardalan, poet and historiographer.
- Mawlawi Tawagozi, poet and Sufi.
- Haji Qadir Koyi, poet.
- Mahwi, poet and Sufi.
- Sheikh Rezza Talabani, Iraq.
- Wafaei poet, Iran.
- Edeb, poet, Iran
20th century
- Piramerd, poet, writer, novelist and journalist, Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Muhamed Amin Zaki, writer, historian and politician, Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Taufiq Wahby, writer and linguist, Iraq.
- Celadet Bedir Khan,, linguist, journalist and politician, founder of the Latin-based Kurdish alphabet.
- Nuri Barzinji, poet, Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Arab Shamilov, writer and novelist, Armenia.
- Rafiq Hilmi, writer, literary analyst and politician, Iraq.
- Muhammad Wali Kermashani, poet, Iran
- Cigerxwîn,, poet and writer, Turkey/Syria.
- Abdulla Goran, poet and father of modern Kurdish poetry, Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Osman Sabri, poet, writer and journalist, Turkey/Syria.
- Emînê Evdal, writer and linguist, Armenia.
- Alaaddin Sajadi, writer, poet and academic, Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Hecîyê Cindî, writer, linguist and researcher, Armenia.
- Qanate Kurdo, writer, linguist and academic, Russia.
- Qedrîcan, poet and writer, Turkey/Syria.
- Ibrahim Ahmad, writer, novelist and translator, Iraqi Kurdistan/England.
- Dildar,,, poet, Iraq
- Nûredin Zaza, writer, publisher, Turkey and Syria, Switzerland.
- Hejar,, poet, writer, translator and linguist, Iran.
- Hemin Mukriyani,, journalist and poet, Iran.
- Ahmad Hardi, poet, Iraqi Kurdistan/UK.
- Karim Hisami, writer, Iran/Iraq/Sweden.
- Muhamad Salih Dilan, One of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry.
- Shamil Asgarov, poet, researcher on the history and culture of the Kurds in Azerbaijan, translator.
- Emerîkê Serdar, journalist, writer and translator, Armenia.
- Mahmud Baksi, writer and journalist, Sweden.
- Abdulla Pashew, contemporary poet, Iraqi Kurdistan/Sweden
- Shami Kermashani, poet from southeastern Kurdistan, Iran.
- Faryad Shiri, poet from southeastern Kurdistan, Iran.
- Malak Jân Nemati, mystical writer and poet from southeastern Kurdistan, Iran.
- Khider Kosari Islamist poet from Ranya, Kurdistan.
21st century
- Bachtyar Ali,, Kurdish writer and poet
- Hiwa Qadir,, Kurdish writer and poet
- Sara Omar,, Contemporary author, novelist, poet human rights fighter, first internationally recognized Kurdish female novelist from Kurdistan
- Abdullah Öcalan
- Selahattin Demirtaş
- Arjen Arî,, Kurdish writer and poet
- Müslüm Aslan,, Kurdish writer and poet
- Necat Baysal,, Kurdish writer and poet