Poet and writer.
He was born in 1954 in Şirnex (Şırnak) Province. He graduated from the Training Institute of Bolu. His first published poem appeared in 1979 in Tîrêj, the first magazine in Turkey in the Kurmanjî and Zazaki dialects of Kurdish. His poems and writings have been published in many Kurdish magazines and papers such as Nûbûn, Nûdem, Jiyana Rewşen, Nûbihar,and others. In the years of 1998 and 1999, he was awarded with the first and second prizes in the poetry competitions organized by The Association of the Families of Prisoners and the Convicted and the literary magazine, Jiyana Rewşen. In 1999, he established Kulîna Kulîlkan, the first literary web site in Kurdish in Northern Kurdistan, which published four issues. In the same year, he started to write columns in Kurdish for the newspaper Fıratta Yaşam. In 2013, he was a literature columnist for the newspaper Evrensel. His poems have been translated into Turkish, Arabic, Persian and French for various periodicals, and they have been published, anthologized, and broadcast on the Kurdish TV channels Medya TV, Roj TV and Gün TV, the German radio station WDR and the Australian radio station SBS. He has attended many conferences, panel discussions and seminars at Bilgi University, Hakkari University, and many non-governmental organizations. Bereh keeps on writing for magazines and newspapers published in Kurdish.
Works:
Poetry:
Êş (Sorrow), Sî Editions, 2001
Şagirtên Evînê (The Disciples of Love), Sî Editions, 2003
Pandomîm (The Pantomime), Belkî Editions, 2006
Şîna Helbestê (The Mourning of Poetry), Doz Editions, 2008
Dilê Min Palgeh e Ji Işqê re (My Heart is a Pillow for Love), containing Şerbeta Ji Êgir (The Fiery Sherbet) and Haîkû (Haikus), complete works, Lîs Editions, 2011
Ji Dûriyê Re (To the Distance), Lîs Editions, 2013
Xewna Dawî (Last Dream), Lîs Editions, 2016
Translations:
Lapis Lazuli (Lapis Lazuli), Mehmet Altun, poetry, Babil Editions, 2011
Gotina Deryayê ye / Denizin Söylediği (The Words of the Sea), Mustafa Köz, poetry, Lîs Editions, 2012
Contact information:
Email address: berkenbereh@hotmail.com.[1]