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Bachtyar Ali
Bachtyar Ali (Sorani Kurdish: بەختیار عەلی; also transliterated Bakhtiyar or Bakhtyar Ali) is a Kurdish novelist, poet and essayist, born in 1966 in Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Injured during student protests against Saddam Hussein's government in 1983, he abandoned his geology studies for literature, and published his first poetry collection, Gunah w Karnaval (Sin and Carnival), in 1992. He has lived in Germany since the mid-1990s and continues to write in Sorani Kurdish. His fiction sets...