Sener Ozmen, The Competition of Unfinished Stories. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. Sandorf Passage, 2025. 240 pages. At the next meeting of the Kurdish Book Club, we’ll discuss The Competition of
On January 6, 2026, the NYKCC’s Book Club met to discuss Lingering Faith by Aisha Walat. The novel follows a Kurdish woman, Beritan, and her friends as they form a
On November 4, 2025, our book club discussed Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz.
Kurdish Book Club, September 2, 2025 Burhan Sönmez, Lovers of Franz K.: A Novel. Translated by Sami Hêzil. Other Press, 2025. Available from the publisher here. In 1960s West Berlin,
Ibrahim Selman, Ozzy: A Smile for a While. Self-published, 2024 The book club discussed this novel on July 1, 2025. From the publisher: Losing your dog is deeply sorrowful—just as
The Kurdish Book Club discussed this novel on May 6, 2025. Cemile Sahin is a Kurdish-German author and multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Born in Germany, she works in visual
Kae Bahar, The Good, the Bad, and the Gringo. Afsana Press, 2024. Previous title: Letters from a Kurd. Fiction, 432 pages. This novel was discussed at the Book Club on
Sener Ozmen, The Competition of Unfinished Stories. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury. Sandorf Passage, 2025. 240 pages. At the next meeting of the Kurdish Book Club, we’ll be discussing The Competition
Alesa Lightbourne, The Kurdish Bike: A Novel. Published by the author, 2016. On January 2 our Book Club discussed The Kurdish Bike. The author, Alesa Lightbourne, participated in the discussion.
On November 6 the Book Club discussed Mountain Language, a short play by Harold Pinter. Mountain Langauge is set in a prison in an unnamed country. The prisoners are not
