Swara Ilkhanizada (1937–1976): Also known as The Father of Free Verse in Kurdistan, Iran. He was a Kurdish great poet and writer. He was born in the village of Turjan near Bukan in Kurdistan, Iran. He went to local school and continued his studies in Tabriz. In 1962, he enrolled in the Judicial Law Department of Faculty of Law at the University of Tehran. In 1964, he was imprisoned for six months in Qezel Qaleh prison in Tehran for his alleged ties to the Kurdish political movement in Iran. He graduated in 1968 and began working at the Kurdish service of Tehran Radio, where he presented a popular literary program called ‘Tapo û Bomelêl’. He died on January 14, 1976, after a car accident and a failed surgery operation at the Misaghiyye hospital in Tehran. He is buried at Hamamian cemetery, a village near Bukan.
