We all know Sherzad Hassan as an author. A writer who entered the field of Kurdish writing through translation. He translated some good works of foreign writers from English into Kurdish and he became a window to introduce the new generation of Kurdish readers and writers to the literature of other nations. These texts were from different fields and with different contents. First, Sherzad paid great attention to foreign plays and later translated several texts into Kurdish in the field of fiction and poetry; in novels, he translated the well-known novel "Life Is Elsewhere" by "Milan Kundera". Sherzad Hassan's translations in different fields include:
"The crow and the Bells": A Selection of Foreign Poetry
"The Brave Young Man on the Carriage": A Selection of Foreign Stories
The play "Feathertop": by Nathaniel Hathorne
The play "Mara Sat": by Peter Weiss
The play "An Angel Descends from Babylon": by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The play "The Tragedy of King Lear": by William Shakespeare
One-act play "Cathleen Houlihan, or the Poor Old Woman": by William Butler Beats
One-act play "The collapse": by Sol Bello
The play "An Angel Descends from Babylon": by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The play "Villages Rising to the Moon": (from Arabic) by Farhan Bulbul
The play "Look at the Past Angrily": by John Osborne
"Life Is Elsewhere" by Milan Kundera
"Politics" by Kent Menuck
On the other hand, Sherzad Hassan appeared as a competent and different storyteller in Kurdish by publishing his first stories from "Guli Rash" (Black Rose) to "Garaki Daholkan" (The scarecrows’ neighborhood). Sherzad's type of spatialization in the story, the characters he chooses, their consultations, and their types are different from all the characters, spaces, and types that existed before him in Kurdish stories. What is most prominent in Sherzad's stories is the atmosphere of Kurdish society and the foundation of the family and the understanding of the Kurdish people in this atmosphere and foundation. He also best tells the impact of political power on people, families, and society in his stories. Sherzad Hassan's most important works in the field of fiction are:
"Memories of a Crow": A collection of stories
"The Tears of the Kukukhti": A collection of stories
"Loneliness": a collection of stories
"Black Rose": a collection of stories
"The scarecrows’ neighborhood": a collection of stories
Especially his stories: The old Butterflies of Evenings, The White Sin, Bavlov's Dog and Ghale and I, Rangala, Zelkaw, The Game of Swapping Beds, The Rabbits' Coup, A House of Water, Marlin, An Incomplete Painting.
However, Sherzad did not stop himself by writing short stories and turned to another direction of writing, novels. He has written several excellent novels in Kurdish literature: Tami Sar Kharand, Zhinek Basar Minarawa, and Pedashti Karmamza Kuzrawkan are among the strongest works in this category. For Sherzad Hassan, the novel is both a context for showing the abilities of a creative writer and an atmosphere for telling the mind, stories, knowledge, ignorance, problems, and problematics of the Kurdish people. If we look at the novel "Pedashti Karmamza Kuzrawkan" for example, he has brought all these aspects together. Sherzad's “Pedashti Karmamza Kuzrawkan” is smart and innovative because, for the first time, a writer uses the language of verse and Hayran to tell a novel without telling the history and following other narratives. On the other hand, he narrates what women and girls feel in the atmosphere of love, obstacles, life, and survival of the Kurdish. In novels, Sherzad Hassan has presented the following excellent works to Kurdish readers and libraries:
The last night of Jesus’ descent
A woman on the garland
The hillside of the killed fawns
The fog on the cliff
My father's fence and dogs
Dreams of spiders
The silent woman
Sherzad Hassan has also tried himself out by writing poetry. "The Trees of the Homeland" is Sherzad's latest work in this field. He had previously created two works, "The Wings of Angel" and "Two Women and Two Men".
However, Sherzad was and still is a serious writer, and his seriousness is evident in his works, especially in the novel “My Father's Fence and Dogs”. But another aspect of Shirzad Hassan's personality and writing is his enlightenment. Authors in the Middle East, especially Kurds, hide from all movements and problems of society as soon as they become famous. But Sherzad has been the most brilliant in this field. He took a responsible stand on social and political issues as a human being and writer. Sometimes his stand may not have pleased some parts of society. For example, I can discuss his stance on the issue of the country from a critical point of view and say that it is unscientific, unnational, and unrealistic. But hundreds of other stands of Sherzad Hassan as a writer and intellectual deserve attention. Because such attitudes determine the boundaries of society.
In all or at least in most of his social and political stands, Sherzad has been a “humanist” rather than an “ideologist” and his weight of test, measurement, and problems, according to humanists, has been a human being. Wherever a party or the whole of public opinion has moved against the interests of mankind, he has spoken out, and wherever an act has taken place in the interests of mankind, he has reacted to them. All his enlightenment on extremism in all its meanings, especially religious extremism, has certainly had a great impact on parts of society and has informed the extremists. If all talented writers had taken a stand and spoken out like him in delicate opportunities, they would have had a greater impact on society and the whole equation of society and extremism would have changed in the interest of society.
