Farhad Shakali was born in the year 1951 in the Garmian region of South Kurdistan. He is a known Kurdish poet, academic and writer who has made great contributions to the field of Kurdish poetry and literature. Shakali is one of the poets who renewed Kurdish poetry in the 1970s and brought a great innovative movement into Kurdish literature. Farhad Shakali completed his secondary education in Kufri and studied Kurdish literature at Baghdad University in the early 1970s. In 1974 and 1975, he joined the Kurdistan Revolutionary Movement and became a Peshmerga. After the collapse of the revolution, he fought underground and in secret for a while. In the summer of 1977, he resigned from politics and he decided to move to Europe, where he ultimately settled in Sweden. After studying the English language, Nordic languages, ancient and modern Iranian languages, Shakali began working as a professor of the Kurdish language and literature at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where he still is working.
Farhad Shakali has published about 30 books, most of which are poetry books, academic research, short stories, translations from Swedish and English into Kurdish, and intellectual and philosophical essays.
In 1985-1996, he published the magazine (Kurdish Teacher), which was a cultural and intellectual magazine, and a total of 31 issues were published before its termination.
At the same time, between the years 1985-1988, he published the Svensk-kurdish journal in Swedish. Today, Farhad Shakali is a very well-known Kurdish poet, academic and linguist who actively participates in Kurdish cultural life and contributes to Kurdish literature.[1]