Ma'rouf Aghayi, also known as Marf Aghayi, was one of the poets who played an important role in the modernist movement of Kurdish poetry in East Kurdistan. He was a content-oriented poet with his own language and style. This sensitive poet was born on 22-01-1966 in Wazne village of Naghdeh city, Sindus region. He died in 1997 in a car accident.
$Biography$
Marf Aghayi is the son of Haji Mohammad Aghayi of the Pashayi family. He completed his primary and secondary education in Naghdeh. He moved to Shino with his family during his secondary education. There, he was excluded from high school, where he was imprisoned for a year.
In 1985, along with the establishment of the literary and cultural center of Sirwa magazine, he began publishing poetry and works. Two years later, he became a member of the editorial board of the same magazine. The result of his efforts was the expansion of the geography and readership of Sirwa magazine. In 1988, she married Azeri Samsami and they had a daughter and a son named Shawnm and Payam.
In recent years, he tried to learn Kurdish vocabulary and English in a short time. The result of this effort was the translation of Kurdish nationalist books. In addition to translating the book Kurdish Nationalism, Marf has published a book of poems and stories entitled Hard Earth and Far Sky after his death.
It has been considered by critics and experts of contemporary Kurdish poetry in Iranian Kurdistan as an important work and a different kind of poetry and several researches have been written about it.
$Death$
After many valuable works and new projects in the Kurdish Culture and Literature Publishing Center and Sarwa magazine, such as organizing congresses, literary and cultural conferences from Ilam to Urmia and establishing many contacts with writers of the different areas of Kurdistan, in 1997, after returning from the funeral of Mina Khanum, wife of Peshawa Qazi, with the writers of Sirwa magazine, in Mahabad and heading to Urmia, while talking with his friends about the fifty-year course of Kurdish literature, he died in a tragic car accident.[1]