Avesta Publishing House published this book in the North part of Kurdistan 75 years after the first publication of the Dildar Divan. This new edition was prepared and typed by Shiyar Sharif Berazi. The book consists of 36 poems, Dildar's biography is written in Kurmanji Kurdish, and a dictionary has been prepared in Kurmanji and Sorani. Although Diwani Dildar contains national themes, he sometimes advises young people and children. The Diwan, "Ay Raqib" by the national poet Dildar, was first published in 1948 in Sorani.
Dildar (Yonus Rauf), the national anthem “Ay Raqib” poet, was born on March 11, 1918, in Koya, North Kurdistan. He died in 1948 in Erbil. Dildar lived in a time of change and the rise of literary movements. There were classical, romantic, and realistic styles among the Kurds. Dildar lived in the late Classical, middle Romantic, and early Realistic periods. Therefore, the theme of these methods can be clearly seen in his poems. When we look at Dildar's poems, we can clearly see that they are a mixture of these three methods, so it is not easy to define the literary method of Dildar's poems. Some of his poems are completely realistic and agree with the reality of Kurdish society at that time. According to the period in which he lived, he is an example of the poets who experimented new Kurdish poetry. According to research on the renewal of Kurdish poetry, if Dildar is not one of the founders of the school of romanticism and realism, then he is one of the authors who renewed Kurdish poetry in terms of weight, music, and meaning. If one reads Diwani Dildar carefully, one will see that his ideology is an advanced ideology of the Kurdish nation. The main goal of his poems is to raise awareness of the Kurdish nation against regress, ignorance, and injustice.
