Jwan Tatar (*1984 in Amude, Syria) is a Kurdish-Syrian poet and translator. He lives in Syria. He has already received numerous writing grants and prizes, including the 2022 Mediterranean Poetry Prize and the 2010 Prize of the Second Forum for Proselyrics in Cairo. Through the Goethe-Institut and Ettijahat Independent Culture he received a writing grant for his prose volume ila al-`alam dur (English: eyes to the flag!)