Yuhanon Qashisho ( 1918 in Esfes , Ottoman Empire &ndash; 2001 in Sweden ) was a praised Assyrian author and poet . He is known in the Assyrian community as one of the greatest Assyrian writer in the past century . His writings created a power base from which many Assyrian political and cultural movements in Syria and Lebanon have emerged in the late 20th century . Malfono Qashisho 's literary works in Assyrian language included over 200 poems , school texts , story books , and Assyrian-Swedish and Swedish-Assyrian dictionaries . Born in 1918 to a priest , his family immediately fled to the south after his birth during the ongoing Assyrian genocide , to the Syrian town of Qamishli , joining the already big Assyrian community there
Assyrian genocide
Assyrian genocide
Yuhanon Qashisho