There are many influential people and researchers in the Kurdish nation who have researched Kurdish history, culture, and language and have not allowed a large part of Kurdish history and culture to be destroyed; with their efforts, they have turned it into a book.

One of the people who has worked hard in the field of Kurdish culture is Zainal Abedin Znar, a Kurdish writer, translator, and researcher; He was born in 1953 in the village of Hadhadk in the Qubin region of North part of Kurdistan.

His father is from the Panjinar tribe and his mother is from the Rashkotan tribe. Because his ancestors were all mullahs, his family is called the "Family of Mullahs".

Zainal Abedin Znar attended a Kurdish school with his father. He studied with several famous teachers such as Mullah Sadraddin Yuksel, Mullah Abdulrahman Nusra, and Khalifa Yusif.

Zainal Abedin Znar began his post as imam-khatib in 1968 and was removed from the post in 1971 during the Junta time. In 1975, he became an employee. He attended high school in Batman. After that, Znar worked as a financier in the municipality of Elhe for eleven years.

On September 12, 1980, when the “military junta” came, until February 1984, Znar was arrested eight times and severely tortured. He has also been sentenced to imprisonment and banishment. He wrote about the torture he faced in his book "178 Days of Torture" in Turkish.

On March 1, 1984, the Diyarbakır Military Court sentenced him to 16 years in prison and five years in exile. However, the sentence was reduced to five years in prison and 20 months in exile.

In late 1984, Zainal Abedin Znar was forced to flee to Sweden because of the pressure and torture he had suffered. From February 1985 to 1995, he was under care at the Red Cross Hospital in Stockholm.

In 1985, he founded a publishing house in Stockholm called Panjinar, a Kurdish cultural publishing house, and a small printing house. The printing house closed in 2004, but the publication continues today.

In 2002, Zainal Abedin Znar found that the Supreme Military Court in Ankara had rejected his imprisonment and deportation sentences, so he returned to Turkey and visited Kurdistan.

Zainal Abedin Znar began writing in Kurdish in 1963-64, in the Arabic alphabet (Aramaic Kurdish) but continued to write regularly in Sweden in 1985. He first began to transliterate classical Kurmanji and researched Kurmanji folklore.

Zainal Abedin Znar has written many valuable works for his people and has published 136 books so far (until 2023).

Zainal Abdin Znar is a member of the following institutions:

- Swedish Writers' Union.

- Union of Journalists Without Borders.

- Swedish Pen.

- Kurdish Writers Association of Sweden.

He recently wrote a work on the massacres in the Zilan Valley, which has recently been published.

Such researchers and writers are the pride of their people and the Kurdish people should know them. Unfortunately, these figures are rarely known while they are alive, but when they pass away, they have hundreds of owners. They are the property of the people and their work should be respected and their works should be well known while they are alive.

In an interview, I once asked Zainal Abedin Znar how much he had worked for each work. He replied: “I have worked on some stories for many years, traveling from village to village and city to city and asking people to collect them." This proves that such works were not easily collected and that much difficulty was involved.

Zainal Abedin Znar currently lives in Sweden and continues to research and write books on Kurdish culture.