Kurdish literature

Kurdish literature (Kurdish: وێژەی کوردی, romanized: Wêjeya kurdî or ئەدەبی کوردی) is literature written in the Kurdish languages. Literary Kurdish works have been written in each of the six main Kurdish languages: Zaza, Gorani, Kurmanji, Sorani, Laki and Southern Kurdish. Balül, a 9th-century poet and religious scholar of the Yarsani faith, is the first well-known poet who wrote in Gorani Kurdish.^[1] Ehmedê Xanî (1650–1707) is probably the most renowned of the old Kurdish poets. He wrote the romantic epic Mem û Zîn in Kurmanji, sometimes considered the Kurdish national epic. Sorani poetry developed mainly after the late 18th century.

Most written Kurdish literature was poetry until the 20th century, when prose genres began to be developed.^[2]

^ Borekeyî-Sefîzade, Sedîq (2008). Mêjûy Wêjey Kurdî مێژووی وێژەی کوردی [History of Kurdish literature] (in Central Kurdish). 3 vols. Hewlêr [Erbil]: Aras. OCLC 691929012.
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[1] Borekeyî-Sefîzade, Sedîq (2008). Mêjûy Wêjey Kurdî مێژووی وێژەی کوردی [History of Kurdish literature] (in Central Kurdish). 3 vols. Hewlêr [Erbil]: Aras. OCLC 691929012.

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