،: Khasro Jaff

Khasro Jaff خسرو الجاف was born in 1945 in Kalar village in the midst of a cultural and educated environment of the Jaff family, that was known for its culture and learning. His father Mohamed Saeed Beg Jaff was, and throughout his life, in the forefront of the cultural life and a distinguished figure in such Kurdish circles, and for more than forty years his works shined in the newspapers and periodicals of Kurdistan. Khasro Jaff was multi talented; a prominent architect, a gifted….. artist, and an inspiring poet whose verses touched the soles; a novelist and author; further more is the man who loved his friends and most modest with those who respect him and consider him a friend. His architectural achievements, which seemed strange at times, that you can pinpoint a certain building of his design by looking at it.

Khasro Jaff is a person who comes from old times, his shining glare catches the eyes, and his sole burns like burning ships in the middle of the sea. There is a revolt, a confrontation in his poetry, and a Sufi passion of the ejection of the matter. He is his own king, a lover of the first order, who remind us of old gone glories and cidatls trembling. Together with the creativeness that is stored in his memory, he is often the spoiled, obstinate child who cries about a lost toy, seeking the wound! Khasro Jaff is a human poet in the full meaning of the words; he adores the sands of his land, the air and the water as he loves his poems and his polite madness; the eyes shine for the love of all; in his poems we discover the human who searches for his secret, like Gilgamish who searched for plant of eternity.

His words shine like diamond in a mountain night, changing colours and lighting to proliferate the skies. Only the threads of innocence extend in an embrace of poetry and such innocence, to spread in the midst of the poems of Khasro Jaff, like a lost sea searching for shores. In his novels we find a historic tendency to document various aspects of Kurdish history in their recent and distant past, to the extent that this tendency is magnified in all of his five novels in one way or the other. Here the question must be asked if it proper to magnify the historic leaning in the writings of the English novelist Walter Scot, and the French novelist Anore de Palzag who aspired to become the secretary of French society, after documented historic events in volumes of his well known novel The Human Trajedy, which was published in the first half of the 19th century. If such was the intention of Khasro Jaff, it would then be for a noble purpose when the novelist is transformed to a historian, honest to actual happenings of his country, and when this nation is Kurdistan his own, and his basic objective is the documetation of aspects of its history, then such mission must be sacred.

-jafftribe