Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada

Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada (Persian:حمیرا نکهت دستگیرزاده) (17 May 1960 - 4 September 2020), best known as Nakhat, was a well known Afghan poet. She wrote numerous pieces of Persian literature that were "very lyrical, with a lot of imagery." Dastgirzada was nicknamed the Blue Poet of Afghanistan (شاعر آبی افغانستان)

Biography Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada was born at Masturat Hospital in Kabul. Her mother was from Herat, a traditionally popular city of Persian literature. She moved to the Netherlands in 1999, where she settled with her family in the city of Utrecht and co-founded the Association of Afghan Writers and Poets in Exile with other Dutch Afghan artists. A number of her works have been translated and published into Dutch.

Death Dastgirzada died from cancer on 4 September 2020. Four days later, her funeral was held in Utrecht attended by 200 people. Then-President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, called her death an " irreparable loss to the cultural and literary community."

Published works Fifteen collections of poetry were published (one posthumously).

A list of selected published works by Dastgirzada: Blue shatt of liberation شط آبی رهایی (1990) Strange song of exile غزل غریب غربت (2003) Around fire and regret به دور آتش و دریغ (2004) The displaced sun آفتاب آواره (2009) Nothing can be said in 50 years هیچ نتوان گفت در ۵۰ سال (2011) The bright alleys of the Netherlands کوچه های روشن ماه هالند (2011) Bitter in the fire تلخ در آتش (2012) White dawn ازسپیده لبریز (2013) Fantasy butterflies (2014) هستند Freedom The city is lonely