Jila Hosseini

Jila Hosseini
Native name	ژیلا حسینی
Born	September 22, 1964 Saqqez, Iran
Died	September 27, 1996(1996-09-27) (aged 32) Tehran, Iran
Resting place	Dozaghara Cemetery, Saqqez
Occupation	Poet, writer
Children	3

Jila (Zhila) Hosseini (1964–1996), poet,^[1] writer, researcher and radio announcer, was born on September 22, 1964, in Saqqez, Iran and was the first Kurdish woman to compose modern poems instead of classical poetry.^[2][3]

Jila was born in Saqqez in Iran. She had a supporting family and Sheikh Abdul Qadir, her father's grandfather, was a calligrapher and poet. Zhila's father, Sheikh Mehran Hosseini, was a judge of justice and an intellectual. She was born into a traditional culture with cumbersome rules and liked to change those old traditions. Under the situation that all educational Centers including universities and Schools were closed caused by Iranian Cultural Revolution, She got married at a young age but her tendency towards modernity influenced her private life and she divorced once. At the age of 32 while going to visit the great poet of Kurdistan, Sherko Bekas, she died in a car accident.^[4] After the death of Zhila, Sherko Bekas composed a poem for her:

I dreamed of a fairy angel

I have seen it myself

Jila is now among the clouds

She is sitting on a purple chair

And writes poetry

She is wearing a moonlit skirt

New Kurdish poetry began its evolution several decades ago and naturally progressed to the advanced stages in Kurdish language literature.^[5] Zhila's poems in Kurdish literature helped to open new windows in modern poem.^[6] She was the first Kurdish woman poet to compose modern Kurdish poems.^[7] She was a pioneer in composing poetry in a modern style among female poets in Kurdistan. She was inspired by Sherko Bekas. There were two different stages in the evolution of her poems. First she didn't has her own language and style but in the second stage she found her own style of composing poems.^[8]

Some of Jila's poems are published as follows:

• Poetry book (Kurdish) گه شه ی ئه وین (The joy of love), first edition of Sanandaj, 1995.^[9][10]
• Poetry book (Kurdish) قه‌لای راز (Secret Castle), first edition of Tehran, 1998. This book was published in three parts.^[11][12]

Part 1: Zhila's remaining Kurdish poems

Part 2: A selection of her Kurdish short stories

Part 3: The Persian poems of Zhila (she had chosen the title of Rain for this collection)

• A documentary TV program from Tishk TV about Zhila Hoseini Life in Kurdish
• Kurdistan Poets Biography Archived 2021-01-16 at the Wayback Machine IRIB website
• A Poet for Poems, Rozhan Noori
• 24 years after the death^{[permanent dead link]}, Hawlati News Agency
• About Jila, Iran's Poem Website، Saeid Fallahi
• Saqqez's Poets Biography Archived 2021-01-16 at the Wayback Machine in Kurdish and Persian
• About Kurdish Modern Poem Archived 2022-01-31 at the Wayback Machine, Negah Website
• Kurdistan Poem Forough, Mukryan Zaryan Website
• A library named after Jila Hosseini, an artist from East Kurdistan, was opened, BasNews, 2019
• Inauguration of "Jila Hosseini" library in Saqqez, Kurdpa, 2019