| Description | Folder containing some papers relating to the life and work of Kurdish poet and writer Serko Bekes (1940-2013), including a bibliography by his published works compiled by Omar Sheikhmous, Swedish translations of his poems translated into Swedish by by Sigrid Kahle, Lena Hagerman & Omar Sheikhmous [n.d.],Arabic translations of poems by Sêrko Bêkes [n.d.], a collection of poems by Sêrko Bêkes translated into French, a translation into Persian of a poem by Sêrko Bêkes [n.d.], photocopied pages from the Kurdish Culture Bulletin Vol.1 (1988) with a translation into English of poems by Sêrko Bêkes, a Russian translation of a poem by Sêrko Bêkes 'V Rossiyu' [n.d.], a photocopied anthology of 89 poems by Sêrko Bêkes, 1975-1986, Sorani Kurdish handwriting, the text of Bekes' speech on receiving the Tucholsky prize for exiled writers in 1985 and an invitation from PEN (Swedish Branch) to the award ceremony, a photocopy of a short biography of Bêkes in his own hand writing from 1987, an advert for a poetry reading at Rinkeby Public Library in Sweden (1987), a 2005 letter from Sirwan Rehim to Omar Sheikhmous concerning a film about Bekes, and a tiny fragment of handwritten poetry about Amouda in Syrian Kurdistan, |