Younis Rauf Dildar's Diary Between Biographies and Novelism

Abstract

The emergence of writing biographies among Kurds has long history which began in the late of 19th century. Thus, started with Wafaey in 1895 who wrote down his biography but this wasn’t developed until the 90s of twentieth century and their number was countable. After 90s, writing biographies was focused more and developed. This investigation tries to care about biography and its title is (Younis Rauf –Dildar-'s diary between biographies and novelism). Due to lack of scientific investigation about biography in general and having no academic research specifically for Dildar and the importance of this biography in Kurdish literature was among the major reasons for choosing this topic. This article is specified for personal biography of Younis Rauf (Dildar). Although it is a personal biography, it is a highly texted literature and tries to specify the mechanisms which makes this biography to seem as a novel. The field of this investigation is two literature genre which are novel and personal biography.

Keywords

• diary
• memory
• narrating
• novelism
• personal biography