Loading AI tools
Iranian Kurdish poet and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jila (Zhila) Hosseini (1964–1996), poet,[1] writer, researcher and radio announcer, was born on September 22, 1964, in Saqqez, Iran and was the first Kurdish woman to compose modern poems instead of classical poetry.[2][3]
Jila was born in Saqqez in Iran. She had a supporting family and Sheikh Abdul Qadir, her father's grandfather, was a calligrapher and poet. Zhila's father, Sheikh Mehran Hosseini, was a judge of justice and an intellectual. She was born into a traditional culture with cumbersome rules and liked to change those old traditions. Under the situation that all educational Centers including universities and Schools were closed caused by Iranian Cultural Revolution, She got married at a young age but her tendency towards modernity influenced her private life and she divorced once. At the age of 32 while going to visit the great poet of Kurdistan, Sherko Bekas, she died in a car accident.[4] After the death of Zhila, Sherko Bekas composed a poem for her:
New Kurdish poetry began its evolution several decades ago and naturally progressed to the advanced stages in Kurdish language literature.[5] Zhila's poems in Kurdish literature helped to open new windows in modern poem.[6] She was the first Kurdish woman poet to compose modern Kurdish poems.[7] She was a pioneer in composing poetry in a modern style among female poets in Kurdistan. She was inspired by Sherko Bekas. There were two different stages in the evolution of her poems. First she didn't has her own language and style but in the second stage she found her own style of composing poems.[8]
Some of Jila's poems are published as follows:
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.