Ferhad Shakely (born 1951) is a Kurdish writer, poet and researcher.
Shakely was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk in Iraq. He began publishing poetry in 1968. In the early 1970s he studied in the Kurdish department of the Baghdad University. He joined the Kurdish national movement under the leadership of Mustafa Barzany in 1974 and went to Syria in 1975. He lived in Germany from Autumn 1977 to Summer 1978, efter which he settled in Sweden in the same year.
In 1981, after studying for one year at the Stockholm University, he went to Uppsala University where he studied Iranian languages. He published a Swedish-Kurdish Journal between 1985 and 1989 called Svensk-Kurdisk Journal.
Moreover, he published a literary Kurdish magazine, Mamosta-y Kurd (31 issues) between 1985 and 1996. In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic. Many of his poems have been translated into Persian, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Icelandic and Danish.
in 2024, he defended his dissertation at Uppsala University. The subject was Kurdish Sufi poet Malā-yē Jazīrī. [1]
He has written 20 books, including: