Mehmed Uzun

Biography:

Mehmed Uzun was a contemporary Zaza-Kurdish writer and novelist. He was born in Siverek Şanlıurfa Province Turkey. Although the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990 he started to write in his mother tongue. As a writer he achieved a great deal towards shaping a modern Kurdish literary language and reviving the Kurdish tradition of storytelling. From 1977 to 2005 he lived in exile in Sweden as a political refugee.