Ahmedê Mirazî (Ahmedê Şewêş Mîrazov, 1899–1961) was a Kurdish writer, poet, dengbêj (singer-storyteller) and organiser of culture and education, born in the village of Tûtek in the Giyadîn area. In 1918 his family fled with Yazidi Kurds to Yerevan, Tiflis and Elegez; from the 1920s he worked in Soviet Kurdish culture and education, took part in the 1934 Kurdology Congress in Yerevan, and in 1937 settled in Hoktemberyan, Armenia. He belongs to the first generation that built Kurdish written literature in the Soviet period; his memoir "Bîranînêd Min" appeared in Yerevan in 1966, and some of his songs were recorded in his own voice for the radio. He died in 1961 in the village of Exêgnût (Hoktemberyan district).
