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| Born | Josef Rasuly May 1967 (age 59) |
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Josef Hammer (born Josef Rasuly, May 1967) is a Swedish-Kurdish writer, poet and humanitarian activist.[1][2] He has been writing and publishing in Sweden since the 1990s, and four of his books have appeared in English since 2023 under his own imprint, Pen Tribune.[3]
Early life
[edit]Josef was born in May 1967 in Tazeh Qaleh, a village in Naqadeh County in West Azerbaijan, Iran, and was one of eight children. The family later moved to the county town of Naqadeh.[citation needed] He was twelve in 1979, the year of the Iranian Revolution, and grew up during the conflict in Iranian Kurdistan that followed it and the war with Iraq.[citation needed] He began taking part in left-wing political activity as a teenager, and wrote poems and articles on women's rights and child labour.[citation needed]
Josef left Iran / Kurdistan as a consequence of his political activities, at a time when he and more than one hundred other writers and politicians faced the threat of the death penalty.[4] By 1991 he was in Turkey. By his own account he was among a group of Iranian political activists arrested for deportation in December 1991 and driven by bus towards the Iranian border at Özalp in Van Province, where local villagers stopped the convoy, after which the group was taken back to Van and reached Ankara in January 1992.[citation needed] Amnesty International reported that in January 1992 more than one hundred Iranian refugees were arrested in Ankara and taken by bus to a town near the Iranian border, that their forcible return was prevented after intervention by UNHCR and human rights organisations, and that they were allowed to remain in Turkey pending resettlement.[5] He was subsequently granted political asylum in Sweden.[4]
Career
[edit]Writing and advocacy in Sweden
[edit]Settling in Sundsvall, Josef was active in the local International Association and published a newspaper for immigrants.[6] In December 1994 he spoke at Sundsvall's annual demonstration against racism, calling for racist and fascist organisations to be banned in Sweden.[7]
In November 1995 the newspaper Dagbladet Nya Samhället profiled him on its front page for his work supporting immigrant women subjected to honour-based violence, in which he argued that Swedish society too often allowed culture and religion to excuse abuse.[2][6] The interview drew a critical response from the women's committee of the Kurdish association in Sundsvall, to which he replied in the newspaper's letters column.[8][9] His short story "Bortgift" ("Married Off"), on the forced marriage of a young refugee woman, appeared in the multicultural magazine Svartvitt in 1995,[10] and a version of the story, titled "Gift", was published in Folket i Bild/Kulturfront in 1997.[11] A collection of his poetry in Sorani Kurdish, Xuşkole nanfiroşekem, was printed in Jönköping in 1995 under the name Josef Ahmad and is listed in the Kurdish Library's bibliography.[12][citation needed] He also wrote for the debate pages of Folket i Bild/Kulturfront.[13][14] In 1995 he was a co-founder of Hana, a Kurdish literary, cultural and social magazine published in Sweden, and he remained on its editorial team until 2000.[citation needed] The magazine is issued by Hanaförlaget in Angered and is still published.[15][16]
Books
[edit]Under the name Josef Hammer he has published four books in English through his own imprint, Pen Tribune: the novel Caging Honour (2023), the children's book What the Forest Heard (2024), the dystopian novel Unlicensed Voice (2026) and Nation, Religion and Nationalism: How they were made and whom they serve (2026).[3]
Bibliography
[edit]As Josef Hammer
[edit]- Caging Honour: A Novel. Pen Tribune, 2023. ISBN 979-8863687858
- What the Forest Heard: A Story for Young Readers. 2024. ISBN 979-8326491060
- Unlicensed Voice: A Dystopian Novel. Pen Tribune, 2026.
- Nation, Religion and Nationalism: How they were made and whom they serve. Pen Tribune, 2026.[3]
As Josef Ahmad
[edit]- Xuşkole nanfiroşekem (poetry, in Sorani Kurdish). Jönköping, 1995. 58 pp.[12]
As Josef Rasuly
[edit]- "Bortgift" (short story). Svartvitt, no. 6, 1995, pp. 18–19. ISSN 0284-7191
- "Gift" (short story). Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, no. 1, 1997. Internet edition
- "Varför arbetslöshet?" (debate article). Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, 1997.
- "Änglagård? - en scen för kapitalismens svarta scenario" (debate article). Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, 1997. Internet edition
- "Kurdiska kvinnor utan frihet" (letter). Dagbladet Nya Samhället, 13 December 1995, p. 13.
References
[edit]- ↑ "About". josefhammer.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Det dolda våldet". Dagbladet Nya Samhället (in Swedish). 6 November 1995. p. 1.
Josef Rasuly, kurd i Sundsvall
- 1 2 3 "Books". josefhammer.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
- 1 2 Engblom, Sten (26 January 1996). "Omänskligt utvisa flyktingar till Turkiet". Nya Norrland (in Swedish). p. 8.
- ↑ Amnesty International (March 1994). Turkey: Discriminatory treatment of non-European refugees and asylum-seekers (PDF) (Report). EUR 44/16/94.
- 1 2 Lindbäck, Eva-Lena (6 November 1995). "Han tar parti för kvinnorna". Dagbladet Nya Samhället (in Swedish). p. 4.
- ↑ Westlund, Joakim (6 December 1994). "Mangrann uppslutning mot rasismen". Sundsvalls Tidning (in Swedish). p. 10.
Mer allvarlig form på sitt tal hade Josef Rasoni från Internationella föreningen. Han krävde att rasistiska och fascistiska organisationer ska förbjudas i Sverige.
- ↑ Kurdiska föreningens kvinnokommitté i Sundsvall (2 December 1995). "Vi känner oss kränkta". Dagbladet Nya Samhället (in Swedish).
- ↑ Josef (13 December 1995). "Kurdiska kvinnor utan frihet". Dagbladet Nya Samhället (in Swedish). p. 13.
- ↑ Rasuly, Josef. "Bortgift". Svartvitt (in Swedish) (6/1995): 18–19. ISSN 0284-7191.
- ↑ Rasuly, Josef (1997). "Gift". Folket i Bild/Kulturfront (in Swedish) (1/97).
- 1 2 "Xuşkole nanfiroşekem". Libris (in Central Kurdish). National Library of Sweden. 1995.
- ↑ Rasuly, Josef (1997). "Varför arbetslöshet?". Debatt. Folket i Bild/Kulturfront (in Swedish).
- ↑ Rasuly, Josef (1997). "Änglagård? - en scen för kapitalismens svarta scenario". Debatt. Folket i Bild/Kulturfront (in Swedish).
- ↑ "Hana no. 8: a literary, cultural and social kurdish magazine". Libris. National Library of Sweden. 2023. ISBN 9789180595230.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) - ↑ "دەربارەی ئێمە" [About us]. hana.se (in Central Kurdish). Retrieved 26 September 2026.
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