Jan Dost wearing glasses and a bowtie, smiling at someone.
Author

Jan Dost is a Syrian Kurdish writer, born in Kobanî, Syria. He has worked as a journalist, translator and editor and has translated several books into Arabic and Kurdish. Having written poetry since childhood, he has published poetry collections and novels, some of which are also available in Farsi, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. In 2000, he emigrated to Germany and later obtained German nationality.