Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

Bakhtiyar Ali

Bakhtiyar Ali (b. Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan,1966)livesinCologne,Germany. He is a novelist, literary critic, essayist and poet, and is widely considered one of the most prominent Kurdish writers. He has published nine novels and several collections of essays and poetry. The novel excerpted here, I Stared at the Night of the City (Periscope, 2016) is the first major contemporary Kurdish work to appear in English. Translated fromSorani Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahmen