Khasraw Jaf (born March 20,
1945 in Kalar) is a Kurdish sculptor, writer, novelist, poet, politician, painter and researcher.
Biography
Khasraw Jaf was born in Kalar on Newroz night in 1945. He completed his primary elementary school in Khanaqin, middle school in Khanaqin and moved to Baghdad for high school. He received a master's degree in architectural engineering from the College of Fine Arts of Tehran University. He participated in the September Revolution as a young man. After the fall of the Ba'ath regime, he became a member of the Iraqi parliament. Khasraw Jaf was married to his cousin and they lived together for 52 years. His wife, Khurshida Dawood Beg Fatah Beg Jaf, passed away on June 2, 2019; Khasraw Jaf earns his income from architecture and currently lives in Erbil.
He has produced more than 30 sculptures which are exhibited all over Kurdistan, most of which are main characters from his novels.
Khasraw Jaf's first experience in this field was writing five stories under the title “Kakay Jaf” for the newspaper “Peshkawtan” in Baghdad, which was published in Kurdish and Arabic. His first work was a translation of the thoughts of the Belgian philosopher Maurice Maeterlinck, and his second was the novel Cordara; He has contributed more than eighty books in various fields of poetry, novels, philosophy, architecture, history, geography, etc. to the Kurdish library.
Khasraw Jaf has turned his house into a national museum where he has preserved many documents such as photographs, writings, paintings of the Jaff tribe, materials and manuscripts, some of which date back to the Ottoman and Qajar periods. It also owns four large libraries with a total of 30,000 to 32,000 books.
Khasraw Jaf has received many awards in Kurdistan and abroad; Some of these are:
European Union Golden Prize in Literature and Arts.
Cambridge Honorary Doctorate.
American Academy Doctorate.
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