Alaaddin Sajjadi was a Kurdish

Kurdish people

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 writer, poet and academic. He was born in Iran Kurdistan. He finished his religious studies and became a cleric in 1938. He began working in the field of journalism in 1939, and became the Editor-in-Chief of the Kurdish journal Gelawêj in 1941. In 1948, he published a journal in Kurdish

Kurdish language

Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

 and Arabic

Arabic language

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 named Nizar. In the period 1958-1974, he taught Kurdish literature

Kurdish literature

Kurdish literature refers to literature written in Kurdish language. Literary Kurdish works have been written in one of the three main dialects of Gorani, Kurmanji and Sorani. Ali Hariri is one of the first well-known poets who wrote in Kurdish...

 and history of Kurdish literature at Baghdad University.

Works

1. Riştey Mirwarî (Collection of writings), 1957.
2. Mêjûyî Edebiyatî Kurdî (The history of Kurdish Literature), 1952.
3. Şorişî Kurdan û Şorişî Êraq (The Kurdish revolution and the Iraqi revolution).
4. Hemîşe Behar, Short story, 1960.
5. Destûr û ferhengî zimanî kurdî (Grammar and Dictionary of the Kurdish Language), 1961.
6. Edebî kurdî û lêkolînî edebî kurdî (Analysis of the Kurdish Literature), 1986.
7. Kurdewarî, 1974.
8. Deqekanê edebî kurdî (Kurdish Literature Texts) , 1978.
9. Nawî Kurdî (Kurdish Names), Ma'arif Press, Baghdad, 1953.
10. Geştêk le Kurdistan (A Journey in Kurdistan).
11. Nirx Şinasî.