Syrian-Kurdish writer and Translator
Golan Haji (Arabic: جولان حاجي; born 1977) a Syrian Kurdish writer, poet, and translator, who was born in 1977. He has published three poetry collections including the "Dark Club", which won the first prize in the Muhammad Al-Maghout Poetry Competition in 2006. He has translated several books from English into Arabic such as "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" by Yasunari Kawabata and the "Dark Harbor" by Mark Strand.
Education and career
Golan Haji, a poet and writer, was born in Amouda which is a Kurdish town in the north of Syria in 1977.[1] He lived in Damascus and then moved to settle in Paris.[2] He studied at the University of Damascus and earned a bachelor's degree in medicine and a postgraduate degree in pathology. Haji started his literary career when he published his first collection of poetry "Called in Darkness" in 2004 which won the Muhammad Al-Maghout Prize in poetry.[3] Then, in 2008, he published his second collection of poetry named "Someone Sees You as a Monster" which was published during the even celebrating Damascus as the Capital of culture.[2][1] In 2016, Haji also published a book of prose which he interviewed a number of Syrian women who spoke about their experience and stories during the Syrian war.[4] Haji has also translated several English books into Arabic including "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" by Yasunari Kawabata, and the "Dark Harbor" by Mark Strand.[5][2]
