“In his eyes was the sorrow of an Arab horse that has lost the race.”
On a day of a March…
The three of us are sitting in a hotel garden right above a park. A jovial giant, a cheerful exile..
Born in Mêrîna, Batman in 1972, Selim Temo is a Kurdish poet, scholar, writer, and translator. Temo studied Anthropology in Ankara University (BA), Turkish Literature (MA) in Bilkent University where he also received his PhD degree. He has authored thirty books, including Kurdish or Turkish poetry, translations, anthologies, children’s books, novels, and news articles. He has also received several literary awards. Temo is currently an assistant professor in Artuklu University, Mardin.