Selim Temo

(Turkey, 1972) was born in the south eastern Kurdish region of Batman. He gained a lot of praise with a two-part anthology of Kurdish poetry which appeared in 2007 and cost him years to complete. Temo not only selected the poems but translated them in Turkish as well. In addition to being a translator Temo is a poet and a novelist. Since 1995 he has published three books of poetry, winning him the Yasar Nabi Nayir prize in 1997. The three collections of poems, Ah! Tamara (1995), Ugultar (2000) and Kirgin Nehirler Meseli (1997) appeared in 2008 in a new edition. His 1998 novel Çiftlere Cinayet Dersleri (literally: Lessons in Killing for Couples) was awarded a prize. Temo made his debut in 1994 with a play and studied ethnology at the University of Ankara.