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Twana Amin


Twana Amin was born in 1981 in Sulaymaniyah in Iraq. Twana is a Kurdish writer, Fictionist, Journalist, and a translator. In 2003 he was a member of the editorial board of (Text) magazine at the Iraq Ministry of Culture. From 2005–2007 he was the General Supervisor of cultural programs of Radio Nawa. In 2007, he was also a General Supervisor of cultural programs of Paik, a weekly newspaper. He was awarded the Best Story prize in the Galawezh Festival. In 2008, he worked at the Department of Foreign languages for the Awena newspaper and was awarded the best story writers prize from Suleymaniah by the Ministry of Culture. In 2010, he was awarded the first place for the Best Story in the Galawezh Festival, in Sulaymaniyah. In 2011, he won the title of “Young Man of The Year” for story writing by the Ministry of Culture in the city of Erbil. Twana received the Best Story award in both 2011 and 2012. He also achieved a breakthrough on the collections of the first place for the Best Story in 2015 for the Galawezh Festival. Sines 1999, he continues to write many Kurdish and Farsi literary articles and does research for stories in newspapers, magazines, and websites. He is currently an active member of the International Federation of Journalists and the editor of (Concept) magazine, which is a seasonal critic magazine.

works
He has more than eleven books of research, story and translation. Below are some of his published works.

God in a human form
God in a Human form is the name of the newest book published in 2012. It’s consisted of several intellectual discussions of the most sensational philosophical problems in the history of mankind…that is "God", who is God? What is God? Where is God? Who are those that define this concept and what is his role? And how he became a God? As humans, can we deal with this world ourselves or each other without this concept? The book wants to answer such questions with research and a vast introduction, with a discussion among several religious scholars, artists, physical experts and even a Saint. On the back cover page of the book it says "in the end, this ambivalent book won’t make anyone believe in God, and won’t reassure anyone who seeks faith. If you believe by reading this book you can find God, then there is no need for this book”.

Flying from an open cage
This book was published by the Concept Organization for Cultural Improvement in 2012. The book consists of a number of articles, and research as a literary work about humanism, beauty, mirror, suicide, mask, sadness, flying, and a number of other topics. On the back of the cover page it says: “opposite from traditional thinking, I see sadness as soul music (Maqam) TN: key – music is a set of related notes, based on a particular note forming the basic part of a piece of music. The true sadness is not darkness, it’s a kind of luminosity and it is a light embedded with mysticism. In sadness there's a strange boldness toward life and death, which makes you face the world carelessly. Human must sacrifice in order to discover your true inter-self. It is too soon to answer that complicated question, whether life within its pure anguish reached to perfection? In my opinion this is the shortest, but the hardest way for humans to reach their inner self and God.”

The girl inside the painting
This book is 130 pages of Twana Amin’s story collection. It was published in 2009, by the Qalam Center in Sulaimanyah. The novelist Karwan Omer Kaka-Sur wrote the introduction for the book, and part of it says: “Writing is not to create the world; it is an attempt to destroy this world. This is an opinion that I believe we reached in the result of literary study about the second generation after the uprising (TN: The Novelist refers to the Kurdish uprising that took place in 1991, against the former Iraqi regime). Twana Amin is one of those known voices from the second generation. This author, as much as he intends to destroy his own life, is not attempting in building it.

Exile and Reading
This book is 387 pages of Twana Amin’s work. It was published by Chawder Critic in 2008, and contains discussions among well-known Kurdish writers about exile, the reading crisis, Kurdish novel problems, the connection between History and Literature, and other study topics regarding the Kurdish literature. These are some of the intellectual Kurdish writers, who participated in this book: Sherko Bekas, Hiwa Qadir, Azad Hama, Dr. Ahmed Mala, Rau'f Begard, Latif Halmat, Aram kak falah, and others.

Farhad's Sculpture
This book is a 192 pages published by Aras Center in 2009. This novel is written by Iranian novelist Abbas Maroufi, who is most known as one of the most complicated novelist, and therefore very difficult for the average reader to comprehend. Based on the Iranian intellectual opinions this novel Farhad's Sculpture is considered one of the most difficult of all his writings. Twana Amin translated this novel to Kurdish and the Iranian Kurd novelist and intellectual Ata Nahai, who lives in Eastern Kurdistan, wrote a review and analytical comparisons about the book. A part of this analytical review says: “no doubt translating a novel such as Farhad's Sculpture is a solitary voice, and narration of piece-meal effort by the author to depict the inner sanctity of inner self-awareness. Translating such a novel is hard and risky, opposite from an ordinary novel or story writing style. This novel has a poetic way of writing rather than an ordinary novel stylistic language. He is a creator of sense. In essence, poetry flows through the pen of the author. The difficulty is that not many translators can successfully interpret such poetic style. I am sure, Twana Amin knew about the difficult endeavor of translating, but did so successfully in spite of this monumental task. Well done, and hope the readers will enjoy it”.

A walk together…A walk alone
This book contains 200 pages published by Qalam publication in 2008. This book details a sociological intellectual research study written by the author in the last few years. The author Awat Mohammed wrote a study about this book in the Kurdistan magazine stating: “This book takes us from reading about fantasy to social research, philosophy, and back to classic world. This book talks about the relationship between suicide and beauty, Mahwi and blasphemy, and the Sulaymaniyah between city and prostitution, hummer and tell, along with other subjects. The author Twana Amin’s note on the cover page says: “Dear readers, if I were you I wouldn’t read this book! These drafts are meaningless, and it is nothing other than my simple view about life. This book is not methodical research as much as a quick review of how we see things on paper.”

The fall
The Fall is written by the Nobel Prize French winning author Albert Camus. This translated book was reviewed and compared with the original French print by Bayan Salman. The note on the cover page of the Kurdish version says: “It is Camus’ point of view that humans are lonely and sinful creatures. In this book sin is not a metaphysical force that Camus is describing as in Cisiv novel. In an opposite way, it is a human travesty that people place sin on themselves as an added burden. Eventually, we all assume that the sin perpetrated by humans is as blatantly obvious as a crease line on our hands”. This book was published by Awer Center in 2013.

The Blind Owl
The Blind Owl is one of the famous Iranian authors, Sadegh Hedayat’s, novels. Twana Amin translated it into Kurdish. This book is a short surrealist novel. In Persian literature, this novel is considered as a 20th century masterpiece. The all-time surrealist André Breton has said “if there is something that we dare to call a masterpiece, it is this book”. This book is a solitary voice, and narration of piece-meal effort by someone who is mentally tired, someone who psychologically hurting and continues living in pain. The author, Sadiq Hedayat, describes it as saying “you cannot talk about this to anyone”. The cause of the author’s pain is beautiful eyes of a woman he sees in one of the afternoons in the month of May. The beauty of this woman’s eyes turns the life of the author upside-down. This novel has been translated into Arabic, Turkish, Russian, English, French, Spanish, and other languages. The publisher of the English version of this novel wrote on the front page “The best Persian novel of the 20th century”. On the front page of the Kurdish version of this masterpiece it says: “This was one of my uncompleted projects from Kurdistan that I brought with me. I had the opportunity last month to complete the translation in a short time. It is possible that the thought of completing this project has something to do with my own inspiration, that I live in. As a small effort by me, I hope this all-time novel will be available to you very soon”.

The Sound of Water's Footsteps and a Kiss with the Ashes Taste
A collection of Persian, Turkish and other languages translated into Kurdish by Twana Amin. The Sound of Water's Footsteps, and a Kiss with the Ashes Taste is 400 pages published by Jamal Irfan Publication in 2015.

Lover’s House
Lover’s House is a new collection of Suhrab Sapahri's poems translated by Twana Amin. It is a translation of the first book of an eight part collection authored by Suhrab Saphari. Twana intends to translate the remaining seven in the future.