Refiq Sabir
Refiq Sabir, was born in Qaladiza in South
Kurdistan in 1950. He gained his first degree (BA) in the Kurdish language from
the University of Baghdad in 1974. He joined the Kurdish movement in 1978 and
his life as a peshmerga became the source of many of his poems. He obtained a
PhD in the cultural history of the Kurds from University of Sofia in 1988. He is
presently living in exile in Sweden where he has published a complete volume of
his poetry. He was one of the new post-Goran generation of modernisers of
Kurdish poetry.