Among the poets who continued their experiments towards a radical modernization of Persian poetry, it was Nima Yushij (1896-1959) who took revolutionary measures to establish a new perspective in ...

Melek Gedic, a research assistant at the Department of Persian Language and Literature of Ardahan University, is the author of “Contemporary Iranian Children’s Poetry” (Cagdas Iran Cocuk Siiri) ...

“Modern Poetry of Iran” comprises works of renowned Iranian poets, translated into English by Delhi-based Persian scholar Aziz Mahdi. A new anthology of more than 85 acclaimed Persian poems gives ...

Malik Muhammad Danish is a young (serving) Pakistani diplomat with a passion for languages and literature —- ‘a polyglot, at home in Urdu, Punjabi, English, Persian, Chinese, and Spanish’. He is an ...

The wits behind the ambitious assignment of Ali-Mohammad Nejati, who is certain that knowledge on modern Persian poetry will be unthinkable without it, disclosed that the book will contain 80 years of ...

Iran’s national poet Simin Behbahani died Tuesday of heart failure at the age of 87, according to the country’s official news agency. Behbahani was an iconic figure of modern Persian literature, ...

TO acknowledge the role of translations and translators in connecting the people of different nations, International Translation Day is celebrated on Sept 30 every year. But this year, the day was ...

The international commemoration for Nima Yushij will be held concurrent with the date of his birth, November 12, and run for three days in the poet’s hometown, the Village of Yush. Today marks his ...