{{Short description|Kurdish poet and writer}} '''Cankurd''', (born 1948 in [[Maydan, Afrin|Maydan]]), is a contemporary [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] poet and writer.
Born 1948<ref name=ElPais>{{cite webnews |author=Silvia Blanco |title=Literatura en medio de la revolución |trans-title=Literature inmidst a revolution |work=[[El País]] |url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/29/actualidad/1340998998_407418.html |date=29 June 2012 |accessdate=13 December 2015 |language=es}}</ref> in the village of {{Interlanguage link multi|Maydan, Afrin|ku|3=Meydankê|lt=Maydan}}{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} in northwestern [[Syria]], he completed his studies in [[Afrin, Syria|Afrin]] and [[Aleppo]]. Due to his political activism, he was imprisoned several times, until he left Syria for [[Germany]] in 1979.<ref name=ElPais /> He writes in [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[German language|German]]. He has translated some of the literary works of [[Shakespeare]] and [[Daphne du Maurier]] into Kurdish.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pen-kurd.org/kurdi/cankurd/piremer.html |title=Anmeldung |access-date=2006-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191642/http://www.pen-kurd.org/kurdi/cankurd/piremer.html |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has also translated some poets of the contemporary Arab poet [[Nizar Qabbani]] into Kurdish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/kmehname2003/46/diyari3.html |title=Archived copy |website=geocities.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027112712/http://geocities.com/kmehname2003/46/diyari3.html |archive-date=27 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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