{"id":7839,"date":"2023-10-28T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2025-02-15T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:35:45","slug":"cigerxwin-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/cigerxwin-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigerxw\u00een, poet"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"Cigerxwin\"Cigerxw\u00een or Cegerxw\u00een (1903 \u20131984) was a Kurdish poet. His work has been so influential that he is known as the father of Kurdish literature and the \u201cpoet of freedom.\u201d<\/p>

He was born \u015e\u00eaxm\u00fbs Hesen to a Yezidi mother in Hesar, near Batman, in 1903. He lost both of his parents while he was still a child. In 1914, he and his sister fled to Am\u00fbd\u00ea, in present-day north-eastern Syria, as refugees. He studied theology and became a cleric in 1921. While in Am\u00fbd\u00ea, he and his compatriots established a Kurdish association.<\/p>

In 1924 he began writing poetry, about the harsh realities of life in Kurdistan. After the collapse of the \u015e\u00eax Se\u00eed rebellion in 1925, a brutal crackdown caused him and many other Kurdish intellectuals to flee to Syria. There joined the Xoyb\u00fbn (Independence) party, founded by Celadet Bed\u00eerxan<\/a> and others. He contributed poems about revolution, oppression, resistance, and love to the Kurdish journal Hawar<\/em><\/a>, edited by Bed\u00eerxan.<\/p>

In poems written in Kurmanci, he addressed the inequal distribution of power in society and criticized the powerful forces that were responsible for the suffering of Kurdish workers and peasants. He especially targeted feudal rulers (aghas and begs) who with their large landholdings exploited the people, as well as the religious aristocracy (sheikhs and mullahs). In his view, they prevented the Kurdish people from achieving freedom and national conscoiusness. He considered it a priority to enlighten the Kurdish people about the social situation. Hence his poetry is simple and revolutionary with a strong popular appeal. He published the first of what would be eight collections of poetry in 1945 in Damascus<\/p>

In 1946 Cigerxw\u00een moved to Qami\u015flo and became the secretary of Civata Azad\u00ee \u00fb Yek\u00eetiya Kurd (Kurdish Freedom and Union Front). In 1948 he joined the Communist Party of Syria but in 1957 he left the party to create the Azad\u00ee (Freedom) organization. This new group later united with the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria.<\/p>

In 1959 Cigerxw\u00een moved to Baghdad. There in 1961, at the University of Baghdad, he created a new Kurdish language department, focused on Kurmanji. He wrote and published Dest\u00fbra Ziman\u00ea Kurd\u00ee (<\/em>The Grammar of Kurdish Language), 1961; Ferheng, per\u00e7\u00ea yekem<\/em> (Kurdish Dictionary, part one), 1962; and Ferheng, per\u00e7\u00ea diwem<\/em> (Kurdish Dictionary, part two), 1962. During this period, he also worked in the Kurdish section of Radio Baghdad.<\/p>

He left Baghdad in 1963 due to increasing repression. That year, while in Damascus, he was arrested and imprisoned. He was then exiled to the city of Suwayda. In 1969 he moved back to Iraqi Kurdistan, where he became involved in the Kurdish uprising led by Mustafa Barzan\u00ee. In 1973 he fled to Lebanon, where he published his poetry collection K\u00eeme Ez?<\/em> (Who Am I?). (The poem of that name is here<\/a>.) In 1976, he returned to Syria, but in 1979 he fled to Sweden, where he published several more poetry collections.<\/p>

He died in Stockholm on October 22, 1984, at the age of 81. His body was returned to Syria, and he was buried in the garden of his house in the Xerb\u00ee district of Qami\u015flo. After his death, in 1985-87, the three-volume history of Kurdistan (Tar\u00eexa Kurdistan<\/em>) that he had written was published in Stockholm.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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