Ahmad Shamloo
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 December 1925
- Died
- 24 July 2000
- Works
- 66
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Ahmad Shamlou (Persian: احمد شاملو) (December 12, 1925 — July 24, 2000) was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist. His poetry was initially very much influenced by and was in the tradition of Nima Youshij. Shamlou's poetry is complex, yet his imagery, which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems, is simple. As the base, he uses the traditional imagery familiar to his Iranian audience through the works of Persian masters like Hafez and Omar Khayyám. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Recent publications · Crossref
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- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
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- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
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Key facts
- Native name
- احمد شاملو
- Born
- ( 1925-12-12 ) 12 December 1925, Tehran , Imperial Iran
- Died
- 23 July 2000 (2000-07-23) (aged 74), Karaj , Iran
- Occupation
- Poet, Encyclopedist and Journalism
- Nationality
- Iranian
- Period
- 1947–2000
- Literary movement
- Modern literature
- Notable works
- In This Blind Alley , The Book of Alley , Fresh Air , Ayda in the Mirror , Ayda: Tree, Dagger, Remembrance , The Manifesto , Forgotten Songs , Abraham in the Fire , Little Rhapsodizes of Exile , Panegyrics Sans Boon , The Tale of Mahan's Restlessness
- Notable awards
- Forooghe Farrokhzad Prize, 1973 Freedom of Expression Award given by Human Rights Watch , 1990 Stig Dagerman Prize , 1999 Free Word Award given by Poets of All Nations in Netherlands, 2000
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Key dates
- Born
- 12 December 1925
- Died
- 23 July 2000
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Article
Ahmad Shamlou (Persian: احمد شاملو, Ahmad Šāmlū Persian pronunciation: [æhˈmæd(-e) ʃɒːmˈluː]; 12 December 1925 – 23 July 2000), also known under his pen name A. Bamdad (Persian: ا. بامداد)) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetry was influenced by and in the tradition of Nima Yooshij. In fact, Abdolali Dastgheib, Iranian literary critic, argues that Shamlou is one of the pioneers of modern Persian poetry and has had the greatest influence, after Nima, on Iranian poets of his era. Shamlou's poetry is complex, yet his imagery, which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems, is accessible. As the base, he uses the traditional imagery familiar to his Iranian audience through the works of Persian masters like Hafez and Omar Khayyam. For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete thus far unprecedented in Persian poetry, which distressed some of the admirers of more traditional poetry.
Shamlou has translated extensively from French to Persian and his own works are also translated into a number of languages. He has also written a number of plays, edited the works of major classical Persian poets, especially Hafez. His thirteen-volume Ketab-e Koucheh (The Book of Alley) is a major contribution in understanding the Iranian folklore beliefs and language. He also wrote fiction and screenplays, contributing to children's literature, and journalism.
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