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Arab Shamilov (Kurdish: Ә'рәб Шамилов, romanized: Erebê Şemo, 23 October 1897 – 1978) was a Yazidi Kurdish novelist who lived in the Soviet Union.[1]

Arab Shamoevich Shamilov
Native name	Erebê Şemo
Born	23 October 1897 Kars Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	21 May 1978 Yerevan, Armenian SSR
Occupation	Writer, poet, journalist, interpreter
Nationality	Soviet
Genre	Novel, story
Notable awards
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Early career

During World War I, from 1914 to 1917, he served as an interpreter for the Russian army. Later on, he became a member of the central committee of the Armenian Communist Party. In 1931, he began working on Kurdish literature at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies. He assisted in developing a Latin-based alphabet for the Kurdish language in 1927.[2]

He became a member of the editorial board of the Kurdish newspaper Riya Teze (The New Path), published in Yerevan from 1930 to 1937. In Leningrad, he also met the Kurdish linguist Qenatê Kurdo and published his work as a document about Kurdish language in Armenia.

Literary output

His first and most celebrated work, the story ̧Sivanê kurmanca û Kurdên Elegezê (The Kurdish shepherd and the Kurds from Alagyaz), based on his own life, was published in 1935.[3] It is considered the first Kurmanji novel. It treated his early life as a Sheperd and how he then turned communist and took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917.[3] In 1937, he was exiled by Joseph Stalin and was only allowed to return to Armenia after 19 years, in 1956, following Stalin's death.

In 1959, he published another novel, Jiyana Bextewer (Жийина бәхтәwар) (meaning: Happy Life) that was then translated into Armenian and later also into Russian (1965). In 1966, he published a historical novel, Dimdim, inspired by the old Kurdish folk tale of Kela Dimdimê about the battle of Dimdim. It has been translated into Italian as well (as Il castello di Dimdim). In 1967, he published a collection of Kurmanji folk stories in Moscow.

Books

1. Şivanê Kurmanca, the first Kurdish novel
2. Barbang (1958) (published in Yerevan by Haypetrat, 1959)
3. Jiyana Bextewar (1959) (re-release: Roja Nû Publishers, 1990, 253 p.)
4. Dimdim (1966) (re-release: Roja Nû Publishers, 1983, 205 p.)
5. Hopo (1969) (re-release: Roja Nû Publishers, 1990, 208 p.)

See also

• Yazidis in Armenia

References

• Avesta Cultural Magazine (in Kurdish)
• Kurdish Literature
• Malpera Mehname
• A Glimpse on the Kurdish Literature in the former Soviet Union
• Shamilov, Arab, "Dastanî Qelay Dimdim", Kurdish Academy of Baghdad, 1975.

На других языках

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- [en] Arab Shamilov

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[ru] Шамилов, Араб Шамоевич

Араб Шамоевич Шамилов (курд. Ә'рәб Шамилов, Erebê Şemo, литературный псевдоним — Арабэ Шамо, 23 января 1897, село Сусуз, Карсская область, Российская империя — 1978, СССР) — курдский и советский писатель.

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