Rafiq Sabir

This article is about the Kurdish poet. For the doctor convicted of supporting terrorism, see Rafiq Abdus Sabir.

Rafiq Sabir (Kurdish: Refîq Sabîr) is a contemporary Kurdish poet.

He was born in Qaladzê in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1950. In 1974, he received Bachelor of Arts degree from Baghdad University.[1] He moved to Sweden in 1989. He writes in the sorani dialect. He belongs to the post-Abdulla Goran generation of modernists in Kurdish poetry.

  1. ^ Langer, Jennifer (2005). The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile. Five Leaves Publications. p. 322. ISBN 978-0907123651.