Rafiq Sabir

Rafiq Sabir (1950-2026) was a contemporary Kurdish poet.

He was born in Qaladiza in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1950. In 1974, he received Bachelor of Arts degree from Baghdad University. He moved to Sweden in 1989. He writes in the Sorani dialect. He belongs to the post-Abdulla Goran generation of modernists in Kurdish poetry.

Works Karwansara, 146 pp., Uppsala, 1990. Towards history : a short ideological historical study, 129 pp., Uppsala, 1991. Werze berdine, 39 pp., Uppsala 1992. Awêne û sêber : Komele honrawe, 88 pp., Arzan Publishers, Jönköping, 1996. . Impiratoryayî lam : derbarey îslam, xêl û nasyonalîzm, 230 pp., Rabûn Publishers, Uppsala, 1998. . Rûnbûnewe : honrawe, 111 pp., Rabûn Publishers, Uppsala, 2001. .