Tawfeq Mahmoud Hamza or Piramerd : (1867 – 19 June 1950) was a Kurdish  poet, writer, novelist and journalist. He was born in the Goyje neighborhood of  Sulaimaniya city in . In 1926, he became the editor of the Kurdish newspa per Jîyan. He also established a private Kurdish school in Kurdistan , called Partukxane i Zanistî (Scientific School).