List of Persian poets and authors
Encyclopedia
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian
writers and poets from Iran
, Iraq
, Turkey
, Pakistan
, Syria
, Afghanistan
, Turkmenistan
, Tajikistan
, Uzbekistan
, Lebanon
, Azerbaijan
and India (Greater Persia
). This list is alphabetized by chronological order. Although a few authors in this list do not have their ethnic origin in the Iranian people, nevertheless they have enriched Persian culture and civilization by their remarkable contributions to the rich Persian literature. The modern Persian speaker comprehends the literature of the earliest Persian poets including founder of the Persian poetry and literature Rudaki
(approximately 1150 years ago) all the way down to the works of modern Persian poets. Some names that lived during the turn of a century appear twice.
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
writers and poets from Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
, Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...
, Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
, Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
and India (Greater Persia
Greater Iran
Greater Iran refers to the regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence. It roughly corresponds to the territory on the Iranian plateau and its bordering plains, stretching from Iraq, the Caucasus, and Turkey in the west to the Indus River in the east...
). This list is alphabetized by chronological order. Although a few authors in this list do not have their ethnic origin in the Iranian people, nevertheless they have enriched Persian culture and civilization by their remarkable contributions to the rich Persian literature. The modern Persian speaker comprehends the literature of the earliest Persian poets including founder of the Persian poetry and literature Rudaki
Rudaki
Abu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki , also written as Rudagi , was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature.He was born in 858 in...
(approximately 1150 years ago) all the way down to the works of modern Persian poets. Some names that lived during the turn of a century appear twice.
From the 7th to the 8th centuries
- Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
- Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-KhwārizmīMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi'There is some confusion in the literature on whether al-Khwārizmī's full name is ' or '. Ibn Khaldun notes in his encyclopedic work: "The first who wrote upon this branch was Abu ʿAbdallah al-Khowarizmi, after whom came Abu Kamil Shojaʿ ibn Aslam." . 'There is some confusion in the literature on...
- Abdullah Ibn al-MuqaffaAbdullah Ibn al-MuqaffaAbū-Muhammad Abd-Allāh Rūzbeh ibn Dādūya/Dādōē , known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ , Ibn Muqaffa/Ebn-e Moghaffa , or Rūzbeh pūr-e Dādūya , was a Persian thinker and a Zoroastrian convert to Islam.-Biography:...
(ابن مقفع) - BukhariMuhammad al-BukhariMuhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari , popularly known as Bukhari or Imam Bukhari, , was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Persia...
(بخاری) - SibawayhSibawayhAbū Bishr ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān ibn Qanbar Al-Bishrī , commonly known as Sībawayh , was an influential linguist and grammarian of the Arabic language. He was of Persian origin born ca...
(سیبویه) - Baladhuri (بلاذری)
9th century
- RudakiRudakiAbu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki , also written as Rudagi , was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature.He was born in 858 in...
(رودکی) - Mansur Al-HallajMansur Al-HallajMansur al-Hallaj was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and pious teacher of Sufism most famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and for his execution at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation.-Early life:Al-Hallaj was born around 858 in Fars...
(منصور حلاج) - Shahid BalkhiShahid Balkhi' was a Persian theologian, philosopher, poet and sufi. Famous persian poet Rudaki has a poem in Balkhi's elegy. He was born in Balkh. Shahid Balkhi was contemporary to Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi and they had connections...
(ابوالحسن شهيدبن حسين جهودانکي بلخی)
10th century
- FerdowsiFerdowsiFerdowsi was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies.The Shahnameh was originally composed by Ferdowsi for the princes of the Samanid dynasty, who were responsible for a revival of Persian cultural traditions after the...
فردوسی - Abusaeid AbolkheirAbusaeid AbolkheirAbusa'id Abolkhayr or Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr , also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed, was a famous Persian Sufi and poet who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition....
ابوسعید ابوالخیر - RudakiRudakiAbu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki , also written as Rudagi , was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature.He was born in 858 in...
رودکی - Abu Mansur DaqiqiAbu Mansur DaqiqiAbu Mansur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Daqiqi Balkhi , sometimes referred to as Daqiqi , was an early Persian poet from Tus in Iran or in Balkh, located in modern-day Afghanistan....
ابومنصور دقیقی - Mansur Al-HallajMansur Al-HallajMansur al-Hallaj was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and pious teacher of Sufism most famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and for his execution at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation.-Early life:Al-Hallaj was born around 858 in Fars...
منصور حلاج - Abolfazl BeyhaghiAbolfazl BeyhaghiAbul-Fazl Bayhaqī , was a Persian historian and author.He wrote the famous work of Persian literature Tarikh-e Mas'oudi ....
ابوالفضل بیهقی, historian - UnsuriUnsuriAbul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi was a 10-11th century Persian poet.He is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court, and was given the title Malik-us Shu'ara .His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which only...
عنصری - Rabi'a Balkhi رابعه بلخی
- AsjadiAsjadiAbu Nazar Abdul Aziz ibn Mansur Asjadi was a 10th century and 11th century royal Persian poet of Ghaznavid empire located in Ghazni province of current Afghanistan....
عسجدی - Farrukhi SistaniFarrukhi SistaniAbul Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani was a 10th- and 11th-century royal poet of Ghaznavids.As an ethnic Persian, he was one of the brightest masters of the panegyric school of poetry in the court of Mahmud of Ghazni...
فرخی سیستانی - Kisai MarvaziKisai MarvaziAbul Hasan Abu Ishaq Kisa'i Marvazi was a 10th century poet of Persia.Born in 953 CE and originating from Merv, he paid flattery first and foremost to the courts of the Samanids, but also to the Abbasids and Ghaznavids, particularly Mahmud of Ghazni....
کسائی مروزی - Abu Shakur BalkhiAbu Shakur BalkhiAbu Shakur Balkhi was a Persian poet of the 10th century in Samanid era, an empire originating from Balkh.He was a contemporary of Rudaki, and wrote three mathnavis, the work Āfarin nama among them. Only one hundred ninety-two scraps of his verses remain today.-References:* E.G. Browne. Literary...
ابوشکور بلخی - AyyuqiAyyuqiAyyuqi was a 10th century poet of Persia. A contemporary of Mahmud of Ghazni, he wrote the epic Varqa u Gulshah. His works are characterized by paired rhyme interspersed with ghazal.-References:...
عیوقی - Mahsati Ganjavi مِهسَتی گنجوی
- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari خواجه عبدالله انصاری
11th century
- Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-DaylamiAbu'l Hasan Mihyar al-DaylamiAbu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami was a Persian poet from Daylam during the Buyid period. Mihyar's poetry was dominated by metaphor, and he wrote in various poetic genres including ghazal, as well as writing elegies on Ali and Husayn ibn Ali....
(d. 1037) - Asad GorganiAsad GorganiFakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani , was an 11th-century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Arsacid period. Contemporary scholar Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub however disagrees with this view, and concludes that the story has a...
- AsjadiAsjadiAbu Nazar Abdul Aziz ibn Mansur Asjadi was a 10th century and 11th century royal Persian poet of Ghaznavid empire located in Ghazni province of current Afghanistan....
- FerdowsiFerdowsiFerdowsi was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies.The Shahnameh was originally composed by Ferdowsi for the princes of the Samanid dynasty, who were responsible for a revival of Persian cultural traditions after the...
, poet (925925Year 925 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Alfonso IV the Monk becomes king of Leon....
–1020) - Omar KhayyámOmar KhayyámOmar Khayyám was aPersian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology....
, poet (1048–1131) - HujviriData Ganj BakhshNaqisaan ra pir-e kaamil, kaamilaan ra rahnumaTranslation:Ganj Bakhsh is a manifestation of the Light of God for all peopleA perfect guide unto the imperfect ones and a guide unto the perfect ones-Kashf Al-Mahjub:...
d1073 - Abusaeid AbolkheirAbusaeid AbolkheirAbusa'id Abolkhayr or Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr , also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed, was a famous Persian Sufi and poet who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition....
- Sanai GhaznaviSanaiHakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi was a Afghan Sufi poet who lived in Ghazna, in what is now Afghanistan between the 11th century and the 12th century. Some people spell his name as Sanayee. He died around 1131.-Life:...
- Abdul Qadir Jilani
- ManuchihriManuchihriAbu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri , a.k.a Manuchehri Damghani, was a royal poet of the 11th century in Persia.He was from Damghan in Iran and he is said to invent the form of musammat in Persian poetry and has the best ones too. He traveled to Tabarestan and was admitted to the court of...
- Sanaayi
- Abolfazl BeyhaghiAbolfazl BeyhaghiAbul-Fazl Bayhaqī , was a Persian historian and author.He wrote the famous work of Persian literature Tarikh-e Mas'oudi ....
, historian - Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
- Farrokhi Sistani (فرخی سيستانی), poet
- Baba Tahir Oryan
- Rabi'ah QuzdariRabi'ah QuzdariRābi'a bint Ka'b al-Quzdārī , popularly known as Rābi'a Balkhī and Zayn al-'Arab , is a semi-legendary figure of Persian literature and was possibly the first poetess in the history of New Persian poetry. References to her can be found in the poetry of Rūdakī and 'Attār...
- Abu-al-faraj RuniAbu-al-faraj RuniAbul Faraj Runi, born in Lahore, was an 11th century Persian court poet who wrote Mathnavi. His family came from Nishapur in Khorasan.He died at the turn of the 11th-12th century.-References used:...
- Keykavus EskandarQabus namaQabus nama or Qabus nameh [variations: Qabusnamah, Qabousnameh, Ghabousnameh, or Ghaboosnameh, in Persian: قابوسنامه, book of Qabus] is a major work of Persian literature from the eleventh century Qabus nama or Qabus nameh [variations: Qabusnamah, Qabousnameh, Ghabousnameh, or Ghaboosnameh, in...
- Nizam al-MulkNizam al-MulkAbu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk, better known as Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk Tusi ; born in 1018 – 14 October 1092) was a Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuq Empire...
, author of SiyasatnamaSiyasatnamaSiyāsatnāma , also known as Siyar al-muluk , is the most famous work by Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of Nizamiyyah schools in medieval Persia and vizier to the Seljuq sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah... - AzraqiAzraqiAbul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi was an 11th century poet who lived in Persia.Born in Herat, Firdowsi is said to have taken refuge in his father's house on his flight from Ghazneh to Tus....
- Masud Sa'd SalmanMasud Sa'd SalmanMas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān was an 11th century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet. He lived from 1046 to 1121.-Early life:He was born in 1046 in Lahore to wealthy parents from Hamadan, present-day Iran...
- Uthman MukhtariUthman MukhtariUthman Mukhtari was an 11th century and 12th century poet of Ghaznavids, an empire originating from Ghazna located in Afghanistan.Originating from Ghazna, he is thought to have written the Shahryar-nama, which describes the struggles of Muslims against Indian heathens during the Ghaznavid era.He...
- Qatran TabriziQatran TabriziAbū-Mansūr Qatrān-i Tabrīzī was a royal Persian poet.He was born in Sahar near Arrah, bihar Tabriz and was the most famous panegyrist of his time in Iran. His full name according to an old manuscript handwritten by the famous poet Anvari Abivardi is Abu Mansur Qatran al-Jili al-Azerbaijani...
- Mughatil ibn BakriMughatil ibn BakriMughatil ibn Atieh Bakri was allegedly a Medieval authority of the Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad, and son in law of Nizam al-Mulk...
- Asadi TusiAsadi TusiAbu Mansur Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi is arguably the second most important Persian poet of the Iranian national epics, after Ferdowsi who also happens to come from the same town of Tus. He was a poet, a linguist and copyist of ancient manuscripts.- Life :The information on Asadi's lifetime is scant...
- Nizami Arudhi SamarqandiNizami Arudhi SamarqandiAhmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī and also Arudi , was a Persian poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161 AD. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala , his only work to fully survive.Born in Samarqand, Aruzi spent most of his time in Khorasan...
- Nizami
- Imam Muhammad GhazaliAl-GhazaliAbu Hāmed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzālī , known as Algazel to the western medieval world, born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia was a Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic....
- Abhari
12th century
- Adib SabirAdib SabirShihabuddin Sharaful-udaba Sabir, known as Adib Sabir, was a 12th century royal poet of Persia. Originating from Termedh, he was employed in the court of Sultan Sanjar....
ادیب صابر - Am'aqAm'aqShihabuddin Am'aq was a 12th century Persian poet.Originating from Bukhara, he was an imposing poet that carried the title amir al-shu'ara in the Khaqanid courts...
عمعق بخارائی - AnvariAnvariAnvari , full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud was one of the greatest Persian poets....
انوری ابیوردی - Farid al-Din Attar, poet (about 1130-about 1220) فریدالدین عطار نیشاپوری
- Omar KhayyamOmar KhayyámOmar Khayyám was aPersian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology....
, poet (1048–1131) عمر خیام - Nizami, poet (about 1140-about 1203) نظامی
- SaadiSaadi (poet)Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī or, simply, Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but he has also been quoted in western sources...
, poet (1184-1283/1291?) سعدی - Sheikh RuzbehanSheikh RuzbehanAbu Muhammad Sheikh Ruzbehan Baqli was a poet, mystic, and sufi from Fasa.-Life:Ruzbihan Baqli was born in 1128 to a family of Daylami origin in the town of Fasa in Fars . Although Ruzbihan Baqli had religious visions at ages three, seven, and fifteen, he claims that his family was unfamiliar...
شیخ روزبهان - Abdul Qadir Jilaniعبدالقادر گیلانی
- Khaqani Shirvani خاقانی شروانی
- Sanaayiسنایی
- Sheikh Ahmad Jami
- Muhammad AufiZahiriddin Nasr Muhammad AufiSadiduddin Muhammad Aufi was a Persian historian, scientist, and author.-Biography:Born in Bukhara, Aufi grew up during the apex of the Islamic Golden Age, and spent many years traveling, exploring, and lecturing to the common folk and the royalty alike in Delhi, Khorasan, Khwarizm, Samarkand,...
- Falaki ShirvaniFalaki ShirvaniAbu Nizam Muhammad Falaki Shirvani was a Persian poet from Shirvan . His contemporary and rival was the famous Khaqani Shirvani.-References used:...
- Hassan GhaznaviHassan GhaznaviAshrafuddin Abu Muhammad Hasan ibn Muhammad Husayni Ghaznavi known as Ashraf was a 12th century Persian poet.Originating from Ghazna now in Afghanistan, he served mostly under Yamin ud-Dawlah Bahram Shah of the Ghaznavid dynasty...
, poet - Sanai GhaznaviSanaiHakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi was a Afghan Sufi poet who lived in Ghazna, in what is now Afghanistan between the 11th century and the 12th century. Some people spell his name as Sanayee. He died around 1131.-Life:...
, poet - Mu'izziMu'izziAmir Abdollah Muhammad Mu'izzi was an 11th century and 12th century poet of Persia. The was the poet laureate of Sanjar . Born in 1048 CE and originating from Nisa, he ranks as one of the great masters of the Persian panegyric qasideh....
- Ibn BalkhiIbn BalkhiIbn Balkhi was a 12th century historian of Persia, in the city of Balkh, in present day Afghanistan.He is known for his work the Fars Nama . Dehkhoda dictionary mentions him to be a contemporary of Muhammad I of Great Seljuk....
- Uthman MukhtariUthman MukhtariUthman Mukhtari was an 11th century and 12th century poet of Ghaznavids, an empire originating from Ghazna located in Afghanistan.Originating from Ghazna, he is thought to have written the Shahryar-nama, which describes the struggles of Muslims against Indian heathens during the Ghaznavid era.He...
- MahsatiMahsatiMahsati Ganjavi , was a 12th century Persian poet. Mahsati is a compound of two Persian words "Maah" and "Sati" . The title appears in the works of Saadi, Nizami, Sanai, Rumi and Attar....
, poetess مهستی گنجوی - Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari VatvatRashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari VatvatRashid al-Din Muhammad Umar-i Vatvāt was a 12th century royal panegyrist and epistolographer of Persia. He was born in Balkh, ....
خولجه رشید الدین وطواط - Nizami Arudhi SamarqandiNizami Arudhi SamarqandiAhmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī and also Arudi , was a Persian poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161 AD. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala , his only work to fully survive.Born in Samarqand, Aruzi spent most of his time in Khorasan...
نظامی عروضی سمرقندی
13th century
- Farid al-Din Attar, poet (about 1130-about 1230)
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, poet (1207–1273)
- Sultan WaladSultan WaladBaha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad , more popularly known as Sultan Walad , was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi, and one of the founders of the Mawlawiya order.-Life and Impact:...
- SaadiSaadi (poet)Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī or, simply, Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but he has also been quoted in western sources...
, poet (1184-1283/1291?) - Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, (1247–1318)
- Amir Khosravi DehlaviAmir KhusroAb'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow , better known as Amīr Khusrow Dehlawī , was an Indian musician, scholar and poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent...
- Shams e Tabrizi
- Sheikh RuzbehanSheikh RuzbehanAbu Muhammad Sheikh Ruzbehan Baqli was a poet, mystic, and sufi from Fasa.-Life:Ruzbihan Baqli was born in 1128 to a family of Daylami origin in the town of Fasa in Fars . Although Ruzbihan Baqli had religious visions at ages three, seven, and fifteen, he claims that his family was unfamiliar...
- Zahed GilaniZahed GilaniThe mystic Taj Al-Din Ebrahim ibn Rushan Amir Al-Kurdi Al-Sanjani , titled Sheikh Zahed Gilani, was Grandmaster of the famed Zahediyeh Sufi Order at Lahijan....
- Khwaju KermaniKhwaju KermaniKhwaju Kermani whose full name is Abu’l-ʿAṭā Kamāl-al-Din Maḥmud b. ʿAli b. Maḥmud Morshedi was a famous Persian poet and Sufi mystic from Persia.-Life:He was born in Kerman, Iran in 24 December 1290....
- Mahmud ShabistariMahmud ShabistariMahmūd Shabistarī is one of the most celebrated Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century.-Life and work:Shabistari was born in the town of Shabestar near Tabriz in 1288 , where he received his education. He became deeply versed in the symbolic terminology of Ibn Arabi...
- Najmeddin RaziNajmeddin RaziAbū Bakr 'Abdollāh b. Moḥammad b. Šahāvar b. Anūšervān al-Rāzī commonly know by the laqab, or sobriquet, of Najm al-Dīn Dāya, meaning "wetnurse"...
- Muhammad AufiZahiriddin Nasr Muhammad AufiSadiduddin Muhammad Aufi was a Persian historian, scientist, and author.-Biography:Born in Bukhara, Aufi grew up during the apex of the Islamic Golden Age, and spent many years traveling, exploring, and lecturing to the common folk and the royalty alike in Delhi, Khorasan, Khwarizm, Samarkand,...
- Qazi Beiza'iQazi Beiza'iQazi Naser al-Din Abdollah ibn Amr was a late 13th century judge and scholar of Persia. His famous work, Nezam al-Tawarikh contains an historical account of Fars.-References used:...
- Auhadi of MaraghehAuhadi of MaraghehAwhaduddin Awhadi Maragheie was a Persian poet from the city Maragha in Iran.He is usually surnamed Maraghei, but also mentioned as Awhadi Esfahani because his father hailed from Isfahan and he himself spent part of his life there...
- Auhaduddin KermaniAuhaduddin KermaniShaikh Abu Hamid Auhadeddin Kermani was a 13th-century Sufi and poet of Persia.He is the author of Mathnavi Misbāhu'l-arvāh , which is an allegorical pilgrimage through imaginary towns, bearing some affinity to Dante's Divina Commedia .He was suspected of heresy, and is thought to have died in...
- Ghiyathu'd-Din ibn Rashid'ud-Din
- Ata al-Mulk JuvayniAta al-Mulk JuvayniAtâ-Malek Jovayni was a Persian historian who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Ta' rīkh-i jahān-gushā .He was born in Juvain, a city in Khorasan in northeastern Iran...
14th century
- Hafiz, poet (born about 1310–1325) حافظ
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Jewish convert into Islam (1247–1318)
- Khosravi DehlaviAmir KhusroAb'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow , better known as Amīr Khusrow Dehlawī , was an Indian musician, scholar and poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent...
,(from India) امیر خسرو دهلوی - Shams e Tabrizi شمس تبریزی
- Khwaju KermaniKhwaju KermaniKhwaju Kermani whose full name is Abu’l-ʿAṭā Kamāl-al-Din Maḥmud b. ʿAli b. Maḥmud Morshedi was a famous Persian poet and Sufi mystic from Persia.-Life:He was born in Kerman, Iran in 24 December 1290....
خواجوی کرمانی - Mahmud ShabistariMahmud ShabistariMahmūd Shabistarī is one of the most celebrated Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century.-Life and work:Shabistari was born in the town of Shabestar near Tabriz in 1288 , where he received his education. He became deeply versed in the symbolic terminology of Ibn Arabi...
شیخ محمود شبستری - Obeid Zakani عبید زاکانی
- Meulana Shahin ShiraziMeulana Shahin ShiraziMeulana Shahin Shirazi was a Persian Jewish poet of the 14th century.He put the Pentateuch into Persian verse under the title Musa Nameh, an imitation of the famous Shah nameh in style....
- Junayd ShiraziJunayd ShiraziMo'in al-Din Junayd ibn Mahmud ibn Muhammad Baghnovi Shirazi was a Sufi mystic and poet of Persia from the 14th century.He has two works, namely, a divan, and Shadd al-Izar . The latter work contains the biographies of over three hundred famous persons buried in Shiraz, Iran.-References:* E.G....
- Ghiyathu'd-Din ibn Rashid'ud-Din
- Shah Nimatullah
15th century
- JamiJamiNur ad-Dīn Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī also known as DJāmī, Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti who is commonly known as Jami , is known for his achievements as a scholar, mystic, writer, composer of numerous lyrics and idylls, historian, and one of the greatest...
, poet (1414–1492) - Mir Ali Shir Nava'iMir Ali Shir Nava'i' was a Central Asian Turkic politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Uyghur origin who was born and lived in Herat. He is generally known by his pen name Navā'ī...
, poet (1441–1501) - Imrani, poet (1454–1536)
16th century
- Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620)
- Vahshi Bafghi
17th century
- Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader BedilAbdul Qader BedilMawlānā Abul-Ma'āni Mirzā Abdul-Qādir Bēdil , also known as Bedil Dehlavī , was a famous Persian poet and Sufi born in Azimabad ; to a family of Chaghatay Turkic descent...
(1642–1720) - Zeb-un-Nissa MakhfiZeb-un-NissaZēb-un-Nisā Makhfī was the eldest daughter of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir...
(1637–1702) - Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (15461546 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France* Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M...
–16201620 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Thomas Dekker, Dekker his Dreame...
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19th century
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, malek al sho'ra محمد تقی بهار(ملک الشعرا)
- Ali Akbar DehkhodaAli Akbar DehkhodaAllameh Ali Akbar Dehkhoda was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published.-Biography:...
, linguist and journalist علی اکبر دهخدا - Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب
- Mirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh Eshghi or Eshqi , born Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani , was a political writer and poet of Iran.He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while...
میرزاده عشقی - Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian رضا قلی خان هدایت
- Iraj MirzaIraj MirzaPrince Iraj Mirza , son of prince Gholam Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern poet and his works are associated with the criticism of traditions. He had translations from the French language....
ایرج میرزا - Ebrahim PoordavoodEbrahim PoordavoodEbrāhim Pourdāvoud , was born in Rasht, Iran, to a mother who was the daughter of a clergyman and a father who was a reputable merchant and landlord. He is one of the most formidable scholars of Iran during the 20th century. Pourdavoud translated Avesta into Persian in six volumes...
, ancient languages, Avesta ابراهیم پور داوود - Aref QazviniAref QazviniAbolqassem Aref Qazvini was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician.-Biography:He was born in Qazvin.He composed many poems about Iran and was called a national poet. Along with his powerful poetry, he also wrote lyrics for numerous songs and played music. He was a revolutionary during the Iranian...
عارف قزوینی - Hassan Roshdieh حسن رشدیه
- Táhirih Qorrat al-'AynTáhirihTáhirih or Qurratu'l-`Ayn are both titles of Fátimih Baraghání , an influential poet and theologian of the Bábí Faith in Iran. Her life, influence and execution made her a key figure of the religion...
, Babi poetess and theologian - Farrokhi Yazdi فرخی یزدی
- Muhammad IqbalMuhammad IqbalSir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...
محمد اقبال - Pandit Raja Kaul Arazbegi "Dairi" (1825–1900 AD) wrote Diwan -i- Dairi, a persian poetical work in Kashmir. The book was later published by The Research & Publication Department, Government of Jammu & Kashmir, in the year 1944.
20th century and beyond
- Abdumalik BahoriAbdumalik BahoriAbdumalik Bahori - Abdumalik Bahori - Abdumalik Bahori - (Баҳорӣ Абдумалик (22 March 1927 Leninabad, USSR - 3 December 2010, Dushanbe, Tajikistan) - was children poet and the first Tajik fiction writer. He was born in the middle class family who worked in the field of silk producing industry...
, tajik-persian poet - Abdolkarim SoroushAbdolkarim SoroushAbdolkarim Soroush , born Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh , is an Iranian thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor at the University of Tehran. He is arguably the most influential figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran. Professor Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at the...
, philosopher - Abolghasem LahoutiAbolghasem LahoutiAbolqāsem Lahūtī , also transliterated as Abulqasim Lahuti and Abulqosim Lohuti, was a Persian poet and political activist who was active in Iran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and in Tajikistan in the early Soviet era.Born in Kermanshah to a poet by the name Mirza Ahmad Elhami, his...
, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی) - Adib Boroumand, poet (ادیب برومند)
- Ahmad KasraviAhmad KasraviAhmad Kasravi , was a notable Iranian linguist, historian, and reformer.Born in Hokmabad , Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the Iranian Constitutional Revolution...
(احمد کسروی) - Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet
- Ali Akbar DehkhodaAli Akbar DehkhodaAllameh Ali Akbar Dehkhoda was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published.-Biography:...
, linguist (علی اکبر دهخدا) - Ali Mohammad AfghaniAli Mohammad Afghani-Biography:Veteran contemporary writer, Ali Mohammad Afghani was born in 1925 in Kermanshah. He was raised in a poor family. Although a top student, he dropped out of school to work along with his father. He tried to get employed in the National Iranian Oil Company, but failed for certain reasons....
, writer (علی محمد افغانی) - Ali ShariatiAli ShariatiAli Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'.-Biography:Ali....
, sociologist and theologian (علی شریعتی) - Aref QazviniAref QazviniAbolqassem Aref Qazvini was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician.-Biography:He was born in Qazvin.He composed many poems about Iran and was called a national poet. Along with his powerful poetry, he also wrote lyrics for numerous songs and played music. He was a revolutionary during the Iranian...
, (عارف قزوینی) - Aziz MotazediAziz MotazediAziz Motazedi is an Iranian novelist and essayist. He has lived in Montreal, Canada, since 1995. Motazedi has also written critical articles on politics as well as the literary and intellectual discourses of his original country and elsewhere...
, novelist (عزیز معتضدی) - Bahman SholevarBahman SholevarBahman Sholevar is an Iranian-American novelist, poet, translator, critic, psychiatrist and political activist. He began writing and translating at age 13. At ages 18 and 19 he translated William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and T. S...
, writer and poet (بهمن شعله ور) - Bozorg AlaviBozorg AlaviBozorg Alavi was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual...
, (بزرگ علوی) writer - Dariush ShayeganDariush ShayeganDariush Shayegan is one of Iran's prominent thinkers, cultural theorists and comparative philosophers.Shayegan studied at Sorbonne University in Paris...
(داریوش شایگان) - Ebrahim NabaviEbrahim NabaviSeyyed Ebrahim Nabavi is a prolific Iranian satirist, writer, diarist, and researcher. , he is the most widely known and active Iranian satirist, currently living in Belgium...
, satirist (ابراهیم نبوی) - Ehsan NaraghiEhsan NaraghiEhsān Narāghi, PhD is an Iranian sociologist and writer.-Biography:During his high school he went to Dar ol-Fonoon in Tehran. Then he studied sociology in the University of Geneva and received his Ph.D at Sorbonne University in Paris....
, Scholar, sociologist and writer - Ezzat GoushegirEzzat GoushegirEzzat Goushegir is a fiction writer and playwright born in Iran and living in the U.S. since 1986.She has published four books in Persian, including two collections of short stories....
- FarzonaFarzonaInoyat Hojieva , mostly known as Farzona is a Tajik poet and writer.Farzona was born on November 3, 1960, in Khujand, Tajikistan. She was influenced by Forough Farrokhzad and other Persian poets, such as Firdowsi and Rumi....
, poet (Фарзона/فرزانه) - Farrokhi yazdi, poet (فرخی یزدی)
- Farzaneh AghaeipourFarzaneh AghaeipourFarzaneh Aghaeipour is an Iranian playwright, author, and activist. She is a board member at the politically active Iranian Writers Association, which fights censorship and advocates freedom of expression...
(فرزانه آقاییپور) - Fereidoon TavallaliFereidoon TavallaliFereidoon Tavallali "Fereydoon Tavallali" was born in Shiraz, Iran. He grew up in a traditional and wealthy family. Spending his early years in a beautiful gardened family compound, just outside of the city, in those days,. His primary education was at home with private literary tutors...
, poet (فریدون توللی) - Fereydoun Moshiri, poet (فريدون مشيری)
- Forough FarrokhzadForough FarrokhzadForugh Farrokhzād was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran's most influential female poets of the twentieth century...
, poet (فروغ فرخزاد) - Ghazaleh AlizadehGhazaleh AlizadehGhazaleh Alizadeh was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married Bizhan Elahi and they have a daughter called Salma....
, novelist (غزاله علیزاده) - Gholam Hossein Saedi, writer
- Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist (غلامحسین مصاحب)
- Gulnazar KeldiGulnazar KeldiGulnazar Keldi is a Tajik poet and editor of the publication Adabiyet va sanat . Keldi wrote the lyrics of Surudi Milli, the Tajikistan national anthem.-References:...
, Tajik poet - Hamid DabashiHamid DabashiHamid Dabashi born 1951 in Ahvaz is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.He is the author of over twenty books...
, scholar and cultural critic - Hamid MosadeghHamid MosadeghHamid Mosadegh , was a contemporary Iranian poet, author and lawyer.Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq , also Mossadegh, Mossadeq, Mosadeck, or Musaddiq , was the democratically elected[1][2][3] Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was overthrown in a coup d'état...
(حمید مصدق) - Hassan Roshdieh (حسن رشدیه)
- Heydar YaghmaHeydar YaghmaHeydar Yaghma was an Iranian poet.He was born in village near Nishapur. Yaghma was a simple worker and was not literate. He began telling poems while in his thirties and learned how to read and write....
(حیدر یغما) - Houshang GolshiriHoushang GolshiriHoushang Golshiri was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniques, and is recognized as one of the most influential writers of Persian prose of the twentieth century.-Early life:...
(هوشنگ گلشیری) - Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی)
- Hushang EbtehajHushang EbtehajHushang Ebtehaj , with the pen name of H. E. Sayeh is an eminent Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work spans many of Iran's political, cultural and literary upheavals....
(H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج) - Iraj MirzaIraj MirzaPrince Iraj Mirza , son of prince Gholam Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern poet and his works are associated with the criticism of traditions. He had translations from the French language....
, poet (ایرج میرزا) - Iraj PezeshkzadIraj PezeshkzadIraj Pezeshkzad is an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel Dā'i Jān Napoleon published in the early 1970s.-Career:...
, novelist (ایرج پزشکزاد) - Iraj RahmaniIraj RahmaniIraj Rahmani is a Canadian-based Iranian writer.He was born and educated in Iran, where he completed his master’s degree, and taught at the Kerman University, Iran, but he was soon in danger because of his democratic activism....
, novelist (ايرج رحمانی) - Jalal Al-e-AhmadJalal Al-e-AhmadJalal Al-e-Ahmad was a prominent Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic.-Personal life:...
(جلال آل احمد) - Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
- Khalilullah Khalili (خلیل الله خلیلی) Poet and writer
- Khosrow Naghed (خسرو ناقد), writer, translator
- Kioumars Saberi FoumaniKioumars Saberi FoumaniKioumars Saberi Foumani also known with his pen nameGol-Agha , was an Iranian satirist, writer, and teacher.-Education and Personal Life:Saberi was born during the Second World War in Souma'eh Sara...
(کیومرث صابری فومنی) - Loiq Sher-Ali (لائق شیرعلی), poet from Tajikistan
- Leila FarjamiLeila FarjamiLeila Farjami is an Iranian poet and poetry translator. She was born in Tehran and immigrated to the United States with her family during the Iran–Iraq War. Farjami is a cultural leader in the field of literature....
, poet - Mahbod SerajiMahbod SerajiMahbod Seraji Ph.D., is an Iranian - American writer who currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, where he works as a Management Consultant.-Early life and education:...
, Writer (مهبد سراجی) - Mahmoud DowlatabadiMahmoud DowlatabadiMahmoud Dowlatabadi is an Iranian writer and actor. He is known as a realist writer of stories of rural life, in which he largely draws on his own experiences.-Biography:...
(محمود دولت آبادی) - Mahmoud Melmasi - AzarmMahmoud Melmasi - AzarmMahmoud Melmasi was contemporary poet and scholar. He was a descendant of Homam-e Tabrizi. He was born on 1917 in Tabriz.He learn reading and writing before of five years old from his father and than from Mirza Mohsen Adib Ulama. After some months he went to school. He finished Gulistan of Sa'di...
, poet (محمود ملماسي، آزرم) - Mahmoud serajiMahmoud SerajiMahmoud Seraji , aka, M. S. Shahed, the contemporary Persian poet was born on August 23, 1934 in the small town of Astara by the Caspian Sea. According to the biography on his site, Seraji started writing poetry at the age of nine...
, poet (محمود سراجی) - Majid M. Naini, writer, translator, speaker
- Manouchehr AtashiManouchehr AtashiManouchehr Atashi was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist.He was born in 1931 in Dashtestan, Bushehr province His poetry is the poetry of the revolting warrior of the humiliated southern tribesman. He takes his work seriously and although attached to his native birthplace his poems are...
(منوچهر آتشی) - Marjane SatrapiMarjane SatrapiMarjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...
, graphic novelist - Massoud BehnoudMassoud BehnoudMassoud Behnoud, a prominent Iranian journalist, historian and writer, was born on July 27, 1947 in Tehran. He started his work as a journalist in 1964. During his long career he worked as an investigating journalist for different newspapers...
(مسعود بهنود), journalist - Mehdi Akhavan-SalesMehdi Akhavan-SalesMehdi Akhavān-Sāles , or Akhavān-Sāless , pen name M. Omid was a prominent Iranian poet. He is one of the pioneers of Free Verse in Persian language.-Life:Akhavan Sales was born in 1928 in Mashhad, Iran. He gave up an interest in music to appease his father...
, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث) - Mina AssadiMina Assadi-Biography:Mina Assadi is a famous poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. She is known for writing about controversial and provocative subjects, especially when she describes the fight against the Iranian regime. In 2007 she wrote the poem called "Pimps"...
, poet, author, journalist and songwriter (مینا اسدی) - Mirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh Eshghi or Eshqi , born Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani , was a political writer and poet of Iran.He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while...
(میرزاده عشقی) - Mohammad Ali JamalzadehMohammad Ali JamalzadehMohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani , was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known for his unique style of humour...
, writer (محمد علی جمالزاده) - Mohammad HejaziMohammad Hejazi (author)Mohammad Hejazi was an Iranian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, translator, a government official and member of the senate....
, novelist and playwright - Mohammad Hossein ShahriarMohammad Hossein ShahriarSeyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat-Tabrizi , chiefly known by his pen name as Shahriar , was a legendary Iranian poet of Azeri origin, wrote in Persian languages and Azerbaijani language....
, poet (محمد حسين شهريار) - Mohammad Jafar PouyandehMohammad Jafar PouyandehMohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, was an Iranian author and "one of the active translators of the country" who is most famous for being one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran....
(محمد جعفر پوینده) - Mohammad MokhtariMohammad MokhtariMohammad Mokhtari was an Iranian writer who was murdered on the outskirts of Tehran in the course of the Chain Murders of Iran. He left his residence at five o'clock in the afternoon of December 2 1998, reportedly to buy light bulbs on Jordan Boulevard in north Tehran...
(محمد مختاری) - Mohammad Reza Shafiei-KadkaniMohammad Reza Shafiei-KadkaniMohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani is a Persian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator.Born in Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan, Shafiei-Kadkani graduated from Tehran University with a doctorate degree in Persian literature...
, poet (محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی) - Mohammad-Amin RiahiMohammad-Amin RiahiMohammad-Amin Riahi was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature, a historian, writer and statemens. Apart from being one of the authors of Dehkhoda Dictionary and Encyclopædia Iranica, he was the author and editor of several well-known scholarly books...
, scholar and writer (محمدامین ریاحی) - Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار)
- Monica Malek-Yonan, playwright
- Morteza MotahhariMorteza MotahhariAyatollah Murtaza Motahhari was an Iranian scholar, cleric, lecturer, and politician.Motahhari is considered among the important influences on the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, and was a co-founder of Hosseiniye Ershad and the Combatant Clergy Association...
, theologian (مرتضی مطهری) - Mirzo TursunzodaMirzo TursunzodaMirzo Tursunzoda - was an important poet and a prominent politic figure. Today Tursunzoda has been elevated to the level of a national hero of Tajikistan. Tursunzoda's face appears on the front of the one Somoni note. The town of Tursunzoda is named in his honor. He was awarded the Stalin...
, Tajik poet - Muhammad IqbalMuhammad IqbalSir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...
, poet (محمد اقبال) - Nader NaderpourNader NaderpourNader Naderpour was an Iranian-born poet.Among many Iranian poets who shaped up the New Persian Poetry or New Poetry , Ali Esfandiari, aka Nima Yooshij, Parviz Natel Khanlari, Nader Naderpor, Forough Farrokhzad, Mehdi Akhavan Saless, Sohrab Sepehri, Feraydoon Moshiri, Siavosh Kasraii, Ahmad...
, poet (نادر نادرپور) - Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج)
- Nosrat RahmaniNosrat RahmaniNosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی; in Persian; (1929 — June 16, 2000) was an Iranian poet and writer .-History:Rahmani was born in the slums of Tehran. He received his college degree from Ministry of PTT...
, poet نصرت رحمانی - Parvin E'tesamiParvin E'tesamiParvin E'tesami , also Parvin Etesami was a 20th century Persian poet of Iran. According to Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, her given name was Rakhshanda .-Life:...
, poet (پروین اعتصامی) - Rahi Mo'ayeriRahi Mo'ayeriخRahi Mo'ayyeri was a famous contemporary poet and musician from Iran.He was born on April 30, 1909 in Tehran. He came from an artistic family his uncle was a famous Qajar Era poet Foroughi Bastami. Arts, and music were always present in his home...
, poet (رهی معیری) - Reza AmirkhaniReza AmirkhaniReza Amirkhani is a contemporary Iranian novelist.He started writing at high school with "ERMIA" novel.He has studied mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology and is a graduate of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents; he also writes essays and researches...
(رضا امیرخانی) - Reza BaraheniReza BaraheniReza Baraheni is an exiled Iranian novelist, poet, critic, and political activist.Former president of PEN Canada, the often called "Iran's finest living Writer" lives in Toronto, Canada, where he used to teach at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.He’s the author of...
, poet and critic (رضا براهنی) - Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian (رضا قلیخان هدایت)
- Rosie Malek-YonanRosie Malek-YonanRosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
, novelist and playwright - Roya HakakianRoya HakakianRoya Hakakian is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer living in the United States. A lauded Persian poet turned television producer with programs like 60 Minutes, Roya became well known for her memoir, Journey from the Land of No in 2004. Her essays on Iranian issues appear in the New...
, poet, writer, journalist (رویا حکاکیان) - Saadat NourySaadat NourySaadat Noury , also spelled as Saadat Nouri, is an Iranian author, a poet, and a journalist. His full name is منوچهر سعا دت نوری Manouchehr Saadat Noury .-Early life and family:...
, poet & journalist (منوچهر سعادت نوری) - Saboktakin SaloorSaboktakin SaloorSaboktakin Saloor was a Persian journalist and historical novelist. He also wrote many popular serialized radio and television programs.- Life and works :...
, novelist - Sadegh Choubak, writer (صادق چوبک)
- Sadegh HedayatSadegh HedayatSadegh Hedayat was Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories.-Life:...
(صادق هدایت) - Sadriddin AyniSadriddin AyniSadriddin Ayni , also Sadriddin Aini, a Tajik intellectual prolifically engaged in poetry, fictional writing, journalism, history and lexicography...
(صدرالدين عيني), Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers of the country's history. - Saeed Nafisi, scholar, poet and writer
- Samad BehrangiSamad BehrangiSamad Behrangi was an Iranian teacher, social critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azeri extraction. He is famous for his children's book, The Little Black Fish.-Life:He was born in Tabriz to a lower-class Azerbaijani family...
, writer (صمد بهرنگی) - Shahrnush ParsipurShahrnush ParsipurShahrnush Parsipur is an Iranian novelist. She is the daughter of an attorney in the Iranian Justice Ministry originally from Shiraz.-Biography:...
, novelist (شهرنوش پارسیپور) - Shams LangeroodiShams LangeroodiMohammad Shams Langeroodi is a contemporary Iranian poet, author and university lecturer. He has researched extensively on different periods of Persian poetry, most famous of which has resulted in An Analytic History of Persian Modern Poetry in four volumes...
, poet (شمس لنگرودی) - Sheema KalbasiSheema KalbasiSheema Kalbasi is an award winning poet, producer, critic, blogger, and human rights advocate.- Biography :Kalbasi is the founder and president of , a film production and publishing company. She is the director and the co-director of several literary projects including the . She has published two...
, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی) - Siavash KasraieSiavash KasraieSiavash Kasraie was an Iranian poet....
poet (سیاوش کسرایی) - Simin BehbahaniSimin BehbahaniSimin Beh'bahāni is one of the most prominent figures of the modern Persian literature and one of the most outstanding amongst the contemporary Persian poets. She is Iran's national poet and an icon of the Iranian intelligentsia and literati who affectionately refer to her as the lioness of Iran...
, poet (سیمین بهبهانی) - Simin DaneshvarSimin DaneshvarSimin Dāneshvar is an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English, German, Italian and Russian into Persian. Daneshvar has a number of firsts to her credit. In 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be...
, writer (سیمین دانشور) - Sipandi SamarkandiSipandi SamarkandiMulla Abdulkarim Sipandi Samarqandi was a Tajik bilingual poet. He lived in Samarkand, in current-day Uzbekistan. His work consists of ghazal, qit'a, mukhammas, and ruba'i, which were written in the Tajik language...
, Tajik bilingual poet - Sohrab SepehriSohrab SepehriSohrab Sepehri was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter.He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province....
, poet and painter (سهراب سپهری) - Temur ZulfiqorovTemur ZulfiqorovTemur Zulfiqorov is a Russian / Tajik poet, playwright, and novelist. He was born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.-References:...
, Tajik poet (Темур Зулфиқоров) - VarandVarandVarand Varand Varand (also known as Soukias Hacob Koorkchian born March 10, 1954, Tehran is an Iranian poet, playwright, lyricist, author, translator and painter of Armenian descent. He has published 27 collections of poetry since 1972....
, poet (واراند) - Yadollah RoyaeeYadollah RoyaeeYadollah Royaee is the poet of the New Wave or the Poem of Imagination in Iranian Modern Literature.-Biography:He is a graduate of college of law and human sciences and he has worked for the state television for several years. His poetry renewed debate about the relative value of form and context...
, poet (یدالله رویایی) - Yasmina RezaYasmina RezaYasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
, poet (یاسمینا رضا) - Zoya PirzadZoya PirzadZoya Pirzad is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist.Pirzad's first novel, "I Turn Off the Lights" has been published numerous times in Iran and has been translated to several languages...
novelist (زویا پیرزاد)
See also
- Authors from Iran
- Iranian poets
- List of Iranian scientists and scholars
- List of Iranian writers
- Persian languagePersian languagePersian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
- Persian literaturePersian literaturePersian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...