Ahmad Darwish Abdullah, also known as Akhol, was born in the year 1911 in the Dargazen neighborhood of Sulaymaniyah, South Kurdistan. He died in the year 1988 and is buried in Saywan Hill in Sulaymaniyah, in a cemetery with hundreds of other Kurdish poets and writers.
Although Akhol had a very low level of literacy, only intermittently studying until the fifth grade of primary school, as it became evident from his poems, he is depicted as an expert in language, expression and high poetic imagery.
Akhol has been passionate about language and writing since the beginning of his life. At the age of 18, he worked in the printing house of the municipality of Sulaymaniyah. This printing house has published the publications (Zhin, Zyan) and many other political and literary publications.
Because of his involvement in these organisations, he became familiar with many other Kurdish poets and writers, including Fayeq Bekas, Sheikh Nuri Sheikh Salih, Ibrahim Ahmad and Sheikh Salam. Akhol's poems are highly poetic, romantic, national and political images. His texts are full of colorful paintings of imagination.
He published his first book of poetry in the year 1970 called Payman u Shiwan, which had a great impact on Kurdish literature. Apart from writing poetry, Akhol is known as a talkative and humorous person.
Akhol was an expert in Persian, Arabic and Turkish poetry and literature. And so this expertise was reflected in his poems. He has been able to translate many different poetic experiences of the literature of these languages into Kurdish. [1]