Kawa Nemir

Kawa Nemir (born 29 May 1974, Iğdir, Turkey) is a Kurdish writer and translator of English language works into the Kurdish language. His translations include Ulysses by James Joyce and the play Hamlet of William Shakespeare. He was also the editor-in-chief of the Kurdish literary magazine Jiyana Rewşen.

Early life and education He was born in 1974 in Iğdir into an upper-class family and attended schools for primary education both in Iğdir and Istanbul. According to an interview published in Voice of America, he was faced with assimilation and denial of the Kurdish nation in school. After he studied English language and literature at the Universities Hacettepe and Istanbul he also studied Ancient Greek at the University of Istanbul until 2002. and was later staged on several locations and occasions by the Municipally City Theatre of Diyarbakir. Besides having translated many classics of Greek and Roman literature into the Kurdish language, he is also playwright and has adapted the Kurdish classic Mem u Zin by Ehmedê Xhanî for theatre. 2018 Resident in the former home of Anne Frank by the Dutch Foundation of Literature