Qeysar Aminpour (1959-2007)
AKA Kaiser Aminpour Bio Brief Qeysar [aka Kaiser] Aminpour was one of the most outstanding, and perhaps the most popular, Post-revolutionary poets of Iran whose […]
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Dariush Ashouri [b. 1938]
Bio Brief Dariush Ashouri (b. August 2, 1938, Tehran) is an eminent Iranian intellectual, linguist, translator, encyclopedist, sociocultural activist, and Hafezologist. Ashouri was born in […]
Ahmad Samiee Guilani [b. 1920]
Ahmad Samiee Guilani is an eminent writer, translator, and editor. He was born in February of 1920 in Sangelaj neighborhood, Tehran. Having received elementary and […]
Dariush Shayegan, Author of Cultural Schizophrenia Dies
Iranian thinker and cultural theorist Dariush Shayegan passed away today (March 22) at Firouzgar Hospital of Tehran after two months in a coma.
Gholamhossein Sa’edi [1936 – 1985]
We Iranians who had among us Sa’edi, the physician-dramatist that taught us how to anatomize social maladies both on the stage and on the screen, […]
Samin Baghcheban [1925 – 2008]
It was that time of the year again; the time that the scent of hyacinths fuses with the smell of vinegar, and the goldfish bounces […]
Portfolio: Peyman Esmaeili [b. 1977]
Peyman Esmaeili was born in 1977 in Tehran. He studied electronics engineering at Iran University of Science & Technology, meanwhile he was a member of […]
Simin: Versifier of a Nation’s Sentiments & Sorrows
For more than a half-century, the arena of contemporary Persian literature has been graced with the luminous presence of two Simins: Simin Daneshvar and Simin […]
Portfolio: Amir-Hossein Yazdanbod
Born in 1977 in Tehran, Amirhossein studied philosophy and physics, but later changed his area to computer engineering. He started writing fiction in 2004 and […]
Portfolio: Mehdi Rabbi
Mehdi Rabbi was born on August 19, 1980, in Ahwaz. In an introduction to his second book, he says “I write stories because I can’t […]