List of Kurdish poets and authors

The following is a list of people who have contributed to the Kurdish literature.

16th century

• Malaye Jaziri (Melayê Cizîrî),(1570–1640), Kurdish poet and sufi
• Sherefxan Bidlisi (1543–1599), historian and poet, author of Sharafnama.
• Faqi Tayran (Feqîyê Teyran), (1590–1660), poet, author of Sheik San'an and Battle of DimDim.
• Ali Taramakhi (Elî Teremaxî), (16th century), linguist and writer.

17th century

• Mustafa Besarani, (1642-1701),Kurdish poet
• Ahmad Khani (Ehmedê Xanî), (1651–1707), Kurdish poet and a Muslim scholar, author of Mem û Zîn.

18th century

• Khana Qubadi (Xana Qubadî), (1700–1759), Kurdish poet, author of Şîrîn û Xesrew.
• Mahmud Bayazidi (1797–1859), Kurdish writer, translator and historian.

19th century

• Nalî (1797–1869), Kurdish poet.
• Mastoura Ardalan (1805–1848), Kurdish poet and historiographer.
• Mawlawi Tawagozi (1806–1882), Kurdish poet and sufi.
• Haji Qadir Koyi (1817–1897), Kurdish poet.
• Mahwi (1830–1906), Kurdish poet and sufi.
• Sheikh Rezza Talabani (1835–1910), Kurdish, Iraq.
• Wafaei (1844–1902), Kurdish poet, Iran.
• Edeb (1860–1918), Kurdish poet, Iran

20th century

• Piramerd (1867–1950), Kurdish poet, writer, novelist and journalist, Iraqi Kurdistan.
• Muhamed Amin Zaki (1880–1948), writer, historian and politician, Iraqi Kurdistan.
• Taufiq Wahby (1891–1984), writer and linguist, Iraq.
• Celadet Bedir Khan (Celadet Alî Bedirxan), (1893–1951), linguist, journalist and politician, founder of the Latin-based Kurdish alphabet.
• Nuri Barzinji (1896–1958), poet, Iraqi Kurdistan.
• Arab Shamilov (Erebê Şemo) (1897–1978), Kurdish writer and novelist, Armenia.
• Rafiq Hilmi (1898–1960), Kurdish writer, literary analyst and politician, Iraq.
• Muhammad Wali Kermashani (1901-?), Kurdish poet, Iran
• Cigerxwîn (Cegerxwîn), (1903–1984), Kurdish poet and writer, Turkey/Syria.
• Abdulla Goran (1904–1962), Kurdish poet.
• Osman Sabri (1905–1993), Kurdish poet, writer and journalist, Turkey/Syria.
• Emînê Evdal (1906–1964), Kurdish writer and linguist, Armenia.
• Alaaddin Sajadi (1907–1984), Kurdish writer, poet and academic, Iraqi Kurdistan.
• Hecîyê Cindî (1908–1990), Kurdish writer, linguist and researcher, Armenia.
• Qanate Kurdo (1909–1985), Kurdish writer, linguist and academic, Russia.
• Qedrîcan (1911–1972), Kurdish poet and writer, Turkey/Syria.
• Ibrahim Ahmad (1914–2000), Kurdish writer, novelist and translator, Iraqi Kurdistan/England.
• Dildar, (Yonis Reuf), (1917–1948), Kurdish poet, Iraq
• [[Nureddin Zaza (1919-1988), writer, publisher, Turkey and Syria, Switzerland.
• Hejar (Abdurrahman Sharafkandi), (1920–1990), Kurdish poet, writer, translator and linguist, Iran.
• Hemin Mukriyani (Hêmin Mukriyanî), (1921–1986), Kurdish journalist and poet, Iran.
• Ahmad Hardi (1922–2006), Kurdish poet, Iraqi Kurdistan/UK.
• Karim Hisami (1926–2001), Kurdish writer, Iran/Iraq/Sweden.
• Muhamad Salih Dilan (1927–1990), One of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry.
• Shamil Asgarov (1928–2005), poet, researcher on the history and culture of the Kurds in Azerbaijan, translator.
• Mahmud Baksi (1944–2001), Kurdish writer and journalist, Sweden.
• Abdulla Pashew (1946), contemporary Kurdish poet, Iraqi Kurdistan/Sweden

21st century

Iman Hamid - Kurdish poet. Best selling author of Tears and Tea.

• Bachtyar Ali, (1960), Kurdish writer and poet
• Sara Omar, (1986-), Contemporary author, novelist, poet human rights fighter, first internationally recognized kurdish female novelist from Kurdistan
• Abdullah Öcalan
• Selahattin Demirtaş