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Rebin Kheder

Rebin Kheder
ڕێبین خدر Rebin Kheder is a Kurdish poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and playwright. He was born in 1986 in Hawler, the capital of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in present-day Northern Iraq but has lived in Germany since 2016. He earned his bachelor's degree in Kurdish Language and Literature at Salahaddin University - Erbil. In 2012, he published his debut collection, On 14 Roads, followed in 2013 by his first novel, A Balloon in the Red Sky. His most recent novel, Language Drives a Broken Bicycle, was published in 2020. Kheder also writes short stories in German, three of which have been published in the Gestern - Heute - Morgen anthology. His poems have been translated into Spanish, German, Arabic, and Persian. He won the second-place prize for short stories from the Federation of Kurdish Writers in 2011 and the third-place prize for poetry at the Gelawêj Festival in 2012.


Three Poems by Rebin Kheder

Translated from the Kurdish by Jiyar Homer and Isabel López
February 11, 2022  By Rebin Kheder
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