Dewran Evdirehîm
(Yildiz Abdurrahim)
- country
- Kurdistan
- disciplines
- poetry, writing
- languages
- English, French, Kurdish, Turkish
- born on 17.11.1982
- in Hasana, Kurdistan
- lives in Paris, France
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biography
Born in 1982 in Hasana, next to the city of Mardin in the Turkish Kurdistan, Dewran Evdirehîm, whose official name is Abdurrahim Yildiz, is a Kurdish writer and poet. In 2000, he started studying landscaping at the University of Adana. He advocated for the right to study in Kurdish language and ends up being excluded by the university in 2002, then is convicted to 15 years of prison in 2005. During the 11 years and 3 months he spent in prison, he wrote 5 books, 3 of which are novels (Jînek Berxwedêr, 2012; Reşeba, 2014; Kenên Hinekirî, 2017) and 2 collections of poems (Serêkaniyê, 2014; Pirseke Serjêkirî, 2021), and resumed his studies in economics.
He arrived in France in 2020, spent 3 months in an artistic residency at the Cité internationale des arts and participated in the persecuted, imprisoned and impeded writers’ week in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
One of his poems was exhibited for Mothers in Exile at the Cité Miroir in Liège in 2023. Trained as a librarian through the Livr’exil program, he works at the BnF. He is completing a master’s in creative writing at the University of Paris Saint-Denis. He is a member of the Agency of Artists in Exile and a recipient of the Porosus endowment fund.