Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State

Kurdistan + 100 is an anthology of twelve contemporary Kurdish writers that explores the possibility of a Kurdish country by 2046, a century after the last glimmer of independence. The stories explore different aspects of the present struggle through the metaphor of futurism, including eco-activism, drone warfare, and the resuscitation of victims of past massacres. The anthology is the first of its kind to be collected and published in the UK.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2023
Publisher: Comma Press

Kurdistan + 100 poses a thought-provoking question to twelve contemporary Kurdish writers: Could the Kurds have a country to call their own by the year 2046, precisely a century after the last glimmer of independence (the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad)? Or could the struggle for independence have taken new turns and new forms? Throughout the 20th century (and so far in the 21st), the Kurds have been betrayed, suppressed, stripped of their basic rights (from citizenship to the freedom to speak their own language) and had their political aspirations crushed at every turn. In this groundbreaking anthology, Kurdish authors (including several former political prisoners, and one currently serving a 183-year sentence for his views) imagine a freer future, one in which it is no longer effectively illegal to be a Kurd. From future eco-activism to drone warfare to the resuscitation of victims of past massacres, these stories explore different sides of the present struggle through the metaphor of futurism to dazzling effect. The first anthology of Kurdish science fiction ever collected and published in the UK, we have invited authors from all parts of Kurdistan and the diaspora to write specially commissioned stories set in their own versions of the future.

Dimension: 198 x 128 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912697366