ZÊDAN XELEF
Written By Edward Gunawan
Zêdan Xelef is a multilingual poet, translator, archivist, and culture preservationist. They grew up in the Êzîdî community in Shingal mountains, on Iraq-Syria borders, where they herded four goats with three other cousins.
Their work previously appeared, among others, in LA Review of Books, Translation Review, World Literature Today, Tripwire, Conjunctions, and Poetry. They are the writer of A Barcode Scanner (Kashkul Books 2020/Gato Negro Ediciones 2022) whose title poem was adapted into a poetry film of the same title, by Shook, that received the Award for the Best Film for Tolerance at the 2020 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
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