Abdulla Pashew

Aina kurdialueilla vieraillessaan väkevänä esiintyjänä tunnetun Pashewin runoesitykset keräävät valtavia tuhansien ihmisten yleisöjä. Vain aniharvat suomalaiset ovat näihin päiviin asti tienneet, että kurdinkielisen maailman merkkihenkilöihin lukeutuva Abdulla Pashew on asunut maassamme vuodesta 1995 lähtien.

With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew's poems chart a personal cartography of exile, recounting the recent political history of Kurdistan and its struggle for independence. Poet-translator Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse worked with the poet to select and translate his most iconic poems, balancing well-known, politically engaged contemporary Kurdish classics like "12 Lessons for Children" with the concise love lyrics that have always punctuated his work.