WRITER · GOTHENBURG
Shwan Hassan
Essays and reflections on family, work and the life carried between Kurdistan and Sweden, written in Sorani Kurdish.
دیار
Writing from the space between Kurdistan and Sweden.
ABOUT THE WRITER
An ordinary moment, followed all the way.
Shwan Hassan writes short, personal prose in Sorani Kurdish. His pieces begin with something small, a phone call with his daughters or a memory of his brother’s carpentry workshop, and follow it until it says something larger about work, belonging and growing older far from home.
New writing reaches more than two thousand followers, and readers answer him in the comments. This site gathers the books, the essays and the sources of inspiration in one place.
BOOKS
On the shelf
His books will be gathered here, each with its cover, a short description and where to read or buy it.
SHWAN HASSAN
New title
COMING SOON
RECENT WRITING
Pieces first published on his Facebook page, kept in the original Sorani. Every new essay appears there first, with readers’ comments underneath.
ESSAY · FAMILY AND WORK
ئەو بەشەی لە دایکمدا دۆزیمەوە
What I found in my mother
His two daughters are both working, which he is glad of, yet it hurts to hear them say they are exhausted. The piece goes back to Kurdistan, where his elder brother, a respected carpenter, taught him that finding work begins with caring about the people you work beside.
INSPIRATION
What the writing draws from
خێزان
FAMILY
Daughters, parents and the small worries that come with them.
کار
WORK
The dignity of a trade and what it costs the people who do it.
یاد
MEMORY
Workshops, streets and voices from Kurdistan, kept close.
ژیان
LIFE ABROAD
Building a home in Sweden without letting go of the first one.