Abdulkadir Musa

Abdulkadir Musa is a poet and translator. He studied French and literature at the University of Aleppo and social work at the ASH Berlin. He works as a social worker, translator, and cultural advisor. His poetry collection Your Wings Have Taught Me to Fly (Semakurd, Dubai 2007 and AR, Istanbul 2013) was published in Kurdish and has been translated into German, Spanish, French, English, Polish, and Arabic. In 2017 he published a Kurdish-English poetry anthology Kurdish Voices from Rojava, (Inner Child Press, Ltd. USA) in collaboration with Katarzyna Sala. In 2018 he received a grant for non-German authors from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe for his new project in Kurdish, “The fleeing head and the frightened pillow that has nightmares.