Azad Zal (1972, Diyarbakñr) is a poet, writer, journalist, translator and linguist of Kurdish origin. He was born in 1972 in Sur district (Diyarbakñr). He is the vice chairman of the Kurdish Writers' Association and he is section editor of the Kurdish Institute in Diyarbakñr.
His first poems had published in 1990, he had been into prison for 12 years because of his political works. He was an editor of Azadiya Welat between 2005âÂÂ2006 and at the same time he made editorial Kurdish works for History Academy of Middle East. HeâÂÂs worked as a publisher at the Kurdish Instutie in Diyarbakñr between 2006âÂÂ2009, and he was an editor of Kurdish literary magazine âÂÂWâ after Sîdar Jîr and Dilawer Zeraq. Since 2007 he serves as the vice president of the Kurdish Writersâ Association.