Helîm Yûsiv (Amûdê, 1967) is a Syrian Kurdish writer and lawyer. He studied laws at the University of Aleppo and has published in Lebanon, Turkey and Germany. He writes in both Kurdish and Arabic languages. Works (translated titles) The Pregnant Man (1991, Arabic, Damascus, 1997 Kurdish, Istanbul, 2004, German, Münster) The woman upstairs (1995, Arabic, Beirut, 1998, Kurdish, Istanbul) The dead do not sleep (1996, Kurdish, Istanbul) Sobarto (1999 Kurdish, Arabic, Beirut) Mem without Zin (2003, Kurdish, Istanbul) Toothless Fear (2006, Kurdish, Istanbul) External links DNB 1967 births Living people Syrian Kurdish people Kurdish writers Syrian writers 20th-century Syrian lawyers Kurdish-language writers 21st-century Syrian lawyers