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INTERVIEW WITH MIHSIN QUÇAN
The interview was translated by Shivan Toma and was conducted at the office of Metin
magazine.
EM: I’ll begin with a couple of questions regarding interviewing for my research.
Well, first, can you state your full name?
MQ: His name is Mihsin Mihamed Xovir, but he is known as Mihsin Quçan
EM: Is it your understanding that I am here to research for my university?
MQ: It’s OK.
EM: And that what comes out of this interview could possibly be published in
my paper or a linguistic journal.
MQ: No problem.
EM: Thank you very much. I wondered if you could begin by telling us how your
interest in poetry began.
MQ: When he was eight years old, he was in a village called Barmanê. As a
result of 1961 revolution, it’s called “September revolution,” his family moved to Mosul,
due to the war, I mean. In Mosul he felt that he was a stranger, an outsider because he
among the Arab children, he was the only Kurdish child. They spoke differently than
him. Continuously he was longing for his village, his little dog, for his mountains, for
snow and these things. So these dreams, which were lost from him in his childhood, he
tried to visualize them in his mind, in his imagination. And day after day his imagination
grew bigger and bigger.
In Arab places, Arabic places, poetry is advanced there. They like poetry a lot. It’s
just like eating and drinking, I mean. Their proverbs are all in verse and poetry. And
when he saw himself different from them, at the same time he liked that he also has his
own poetry which is like theirs, I mean, but different―in Kurdish. So he experienced
homesickness for his homeland, for his village and these things; and his being among a