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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

Bakhtiyar Ali