Qubad Jalizadeh - The Poet of Women of the Rain

He was born in 1953 in Koya, Erbil province, South Kurdistan. He finished his primary and secondary education in Koya.

He graduated from Baghdad University, Law Department.

In the 1980s, he joined the Peshmerga of Kurdistan and worked as a revolutionary judge.

He published his first collection of poems in 1988, "A Pencil with White Beard".

After the revolution and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was established, he worked as the president of the Suleimani Children's Court.

 In 2010, he was hated by the Kurdistan judiciary for writing several articles about corruption in the Kurdistan judiciary and courts and was expelled from Suleimani to Chamchamal.

 He retired at his own request this year due to pressure.

 In the same year, a collection of poems entitled “Snow's Bra is Full of Fibers” was banned by the Kurdistan Parliament's Endowment Committee and collected away from the market.

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He has published the following works so far:

A Pencil with White Beard 1988

Tamtuman 1990

The Gallowses of Paradise 1988

Always Turning to God Always Drunk 2001

Martyr Walks Alone 2005

These five collections of poems, entitled “Martyr Walks Alone”, was published in 2005 as the first Diwan of Ghubad's book of poems.

Van Erotic 2006

The Sun in a Broken Glass 2008

Snow's Bra is Full of Fiber 2010

The Gardens of Malak Tawus 2012

These four collections of poems, entitled "The Gardens of Malak Tawus", was published in 2012 as the second Diwan of Ghubad's book of poems.

I Buy a Second Hand Jacket 2014

 The Wind is Sitting on Your Alley 2016

The Haikus of Ghubad Jalizadeh 2018

These three collections of poems, entitled "A Woman of the Rain", was published in 2019 as the third Diwan of Ghubad's book of poems.

The Blue Allies of Childhood 2019

The Khartala Music Band 2020

 The God My Mother Loved 2021

My Home is in the Birds Neighborhood 2021

A Course to Learn Crying 2022

 

Qubad Jalizadeh has been awarded as an innovative poet in several Kurdistan literary festivals.

His poems have been translated into Arabic, Persian, and English.

Rebwar Siwayli, a Kurdish author and critic, has written a book on the poems of Qubad Jalizadeh, entitled "The Qubad's Book", which was published in 2022 and received much attention.

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