Parviz Shapour
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Parviz Shapour was an 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...

ian writer
Writer
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, caricaturist, and satirist. He is well known for his short, humorous pieces.

In 1951 he married his second cousin, poet Forough Farrokhzad
Forough Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzād was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran's most influential female poets of the twentieth century...

, but they divorced three years later.
Ahmad Shamlou one the most important Iranian contemporary poets dedicated his book "Hava-ye Tazeh" to him.
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He is famous for short and humerus sentences known as Cari-kalamator
Cari-kalamator
Cari-kalamator is the name of the Parviz Shapour's writings. The first time, it be used in the Khoosheh Journal's editorial in 1968. in that Journal, Ahmad Shamlou said: this word is derived from "caricature" and "kalameh"...

 (کاریکلماتور in Persian). This term was first generated by Ahmad Shamlou to name Shapour's work.Some samples of his cari-kalamator are:

-The absent minded compass draws ellipses.

- The decline swims in the water fall.

- I have a lifetime to die.

- The sunflower feels indecisive in cloudy days.

- The guillotine believes that the human head is excessive.

- The cat climbs the first half of the tree because of the dog and the rest because of the bird.

- With the same speed that the cat climbs up the tree, the tree climbs down the cat.
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