Arab Shamilov
Arab Shamilov (Kurdish: Ә'рәб Шамилов, also known as Erebê Şemo; 23 January 1897 – 1978) was a Yazidi-Kurdish novelist and scholar who lived in the Soviet Union.
Arab Shamilov
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- Born
- 1897. · Susuz.
- Died
- 1978. · Yerevan.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union.
- Occupation
- poet, journalist, translator, novelist and writer.
- Honours
- Order of the Red Banner and Order of Friendship of Peoples.
- Languages
- Armenian and Kurdish.
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Arab Shamilov (Kurdish: Ә'рәб Шамилов, also known as Erebê Şemo; 23 January 1897 – 1978) was a Yazidi-Kurdish novelist and scholar who lived in the Soviet Union.
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Early career
Arab Shamilov was born on 23 January 1897 in the village of Susuz in the Kars oblast, now located in eastern Turkey but then part of the Russian Empire. During World War I, from 1914 to 1917, he served as an interpreter for the Russian army. Later on, he became a member of the central committee of the Armenian Communist Party. In 1931, he began working on Kurdish literature at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies. He assisted in developing a Latin-based alphabet for the Kurdish language in 1927. He became a member of the editorial board of the Kurdish newspaper Ria Taza (The New Path), published in Yerevan from 1930 to 1937. In Leningrad, he also met the Kurdish linguist Qanate Kurdo and published his work as a document about Kurdish language in Armenia.
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1897
Arab Shamilov was born in 1897 at Susuz.
1978
Arab Shamilov died in 1978 at Yerevan.
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Literary output
His first and most celebrated work, the story Şivanê kurmanca (The Kurdish Shepherd), based on his own life, was published in 1931. It is considered the first Kurmanji novel. It treated his early life as a shepherd and how he then became a communist and took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1937, he was exiled during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge and was only allowed to return to Armenia after 19 years, in 1956, during the Khrushchev Thaw. In 1959, he published another novel, Jiyana Bextewer (Happy Life) that was then translated into Armenian and later also into Russian (1965). In 1966, he published a historical novel, Dimdim, inspired by the old Kurdish folk tale of Kela Dimdimê about the Battle of Dimdim. It has been translated into Italian as Il castello di Dimdim. In 1967, he published a collection of Kurmanji folk stories in Moscow.
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Şivanê kurmanca, the first Kurdish novel Barbang (1958) (published in Yerevan by Haypetrat, 1959) Jiyana Bextewer (1959) (re-release: Roja Nû Publishers, 1990, 253 p.) Dimdim (1966) (re-release: Roja Nû Publishers, 1983, 205 p.) Hopo (1969) (re-release: Roja Nû Publishers, 1990, 208 p.)
Arab Shamilov (23 January 1897 – 1978) was a Yazidi Kurdish novelist and scholar who lived in the Soviet Union.
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- 1.Rediscovering Kurdistan's Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket. 95. 2018.
- 2.Hay sovetakan hanragitaran hratarakch’ut’yun. Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran. 8. 440–441. 1982.
- 3.Galip, Özlem Belçim. Re-visioning "Kurdistan" and "Diaspora" in Kurdish novelistic discourse in Sweden. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 4. 2. 82–90. 2014. 10.2478/njmr-2014-0009.
- 4.de la Bretèque, Estelle Amy. The Cambridge History of the Kurds. Cambridge University Press. 463. 2021. 978-1-108-47335-4.
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