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Literature and orature

From dengbêj to the modern novel.

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  • A broad area of knowledge that arranges the Academy’s courses by subject; it is not an institution or a body of teaching staff. of Kurdish Studies

    Kurdish literatures

    Kurdish literatures run from the classical poetry of Ehmedê Xanî and the Baban school to the modern novel.

01Wave 1

  • Kurdish oral tradition · Foundations

    Dengbêj and oral tradition

    The dengbêj singers and the Kurdish oral tradition of epic, lament and song.

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03Wave 3

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Literature and orature. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/schools/literature-orature/

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Literature and Orature.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/schools/literature-orature/.

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@misc{kco2026_learn_schools_literature_orature,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Literature and orature},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/schools/literature-orature/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/schools/literature-orature/},
}

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04Research and sources

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  1. The Oral Tradition of Dengbêjî : A Kurdish Genre of Verbal Art and Reported Speech

    Amir Sharifi, Zuzan Barwari · 2020 · Kurdish Art and Identity

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  2. Âşık ve Dengbêj İcralarında Dinleyici Rolü (Karşılaştırmalı Bir Analiz)

    Memet Metin BARLIK, Nevzat AĞÇAKAYA · 2023 · Kurdiyat

    ArticleCrossrefZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. Kurdish Music as Literature: Some Historical Considerations

    Jon E. Bullock · 2023 · Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  4. "Acting" under Turkey’s State of Emergency: A Conversation with Kurdish Artists about Theatre, the Dengbêj Tradition, and the First Kurdish Hamlet

    Verstraete, Pieter · 2019 · Performance Matters

    ArticleOpenAlexZenodoOpen accesspublic-domain

  5. Pastoral Literature in Oral Kurdish Literature: A Case Study of Khavmirabad District of Mariwan

    Serwe Fatahi, Narges Jaberinasab, Ahmad Khatami · 2022 · پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  6. After decades spent gathering Kurdish literature and cultural artifacts for an “exile museum,” one man’s life’s work is under threat.

    2026 · Kurdish Exile Museum

    ArticleKurdish Exile Museum

  7. Heritageization of Kurdish Oral Traditions

    Joanna Bocheńska · 2025 · Springer eBooks

    OtherOpenAlexOpen access

  8. Roots and Routes: Kurdish Literature as World Literature

    Zhila Gholami · 2021 · Griffith University

    OtherDataCite

  9. Sherko Bekas and the Emergence of Postnational Kurdish Literature

    Marouf Cabi · 2023 · Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature

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  10. JÎYANA JINÊN DENGBÊJ JI ALÎYÊ ZAYENDA CIVAKÎ VE

    Leyla Kaplan · 2026 · Dicle Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

    ArticleCrossref

  11. A Study of Maternal Lullabies in Kurdish Literature by Kalhor

    nahid hemati · 2025 · Biannual Journal of the Kurdish Language & Literature Studies

    ArticleDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  12. From Dengbêj to Modern Writer: Heritagization of the Kurdish Oral Tradition and Revitalization of the Kurdish Language in the Works of Mehmed Uzun and Mehmet Dicle

    Joanna Bocheńska · 2022 · Iranian Studies

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

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