Bahad\u020bn Akhan was born in 1996 in the Kurdish city of Mu\u015f, officially eastern Turkey. From a young age, he loved to learn to read and write and after a while he realized that neither he could give up reading and writing, nor did they want to give him up. However, under pressure from the Turkish state, he was not given an education in his mother tongue but had to learn Turkish. When he heard that a Kurdology faculty had been opened in northern Kurdistan, he gave up everything to study there and then devoted himself entirely to reading and writing in Kurdish. His poems and stories have won several awards and been published in various magazines. He has also worked as a journalist and editor. Bahad\u020bn was forced to leave his country at the end of 2022 and has been living in Berlin since 2023, continuing his work with The Poetry Project – a project that connects young people from refugee backgrounds with established authors and translators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bahad\u020bn Akhan was born in 1996 in the Kurdish city of Mu\u015f, officially eastern Turkey. From a young age, he loved to learn to read and write and after a while he realized that neither he could give up reading and writing, nor did they want to give him up. However, under pressure from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21454,"template":"","categories":[7],"class_list":["post-21453","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author"],"yoast_head":"\n